Introduction: Revolutions: a twenty-first-century perspective
Radhika Desai and Henry Heller
1. The Russian Revolution at 100: the Soviet experience in the mirror of permanent counterrevolution
Kees van der Pijl
2. Colours of a revolution. Post-communist society, global capitalism and the Ukraine crisis
Ruslan Dzarasov and Victoria Gritsenko
3. Building socialism: from ‘scientific’ to ‘active’ Marxism
David Lane
4. Culture and revolution: Bakhtin, Mayakovsky and Lenin (disalienation as [social] creativity)
Aleksandr Buzgalin and Lyudmila Bulavka-Buzgalina
5. The Chinese Revolution and the Communist International
Enfu Cheng and Jun Yang
6. Marx’s critical political economy, ‘Marxist economics’ and actually occurring revolutions against capitalism
Radhika Desai
7. Continuity and change in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
Julia Buxton
8. A political economy for social movements and revolution: popular media access, power and cultural hegemony
Lee Artz
9. Bush/revolution: theses on the challenges that gatherers and hunters pose to dominant structures
Peter Kulchyski
10. The communitarian revolutionary subject: new forms of social transformation
David Barkin and Alejandra Sánchez
11. Hegel, Haiti and revolution: the post-colonial moment
Henry Heller
Biography
Radhika Desai is Professor of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada, the Director of the Geopolitical Economy and the President of the Society for Socialist Studies.
Henry Heller is Professor of History at the University of Manitoba, Canada.
