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Revolutionary Pairs: Marx and Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, Gandhi and Nehru, Mao and Zhou, Castro and Guevara Kindle Edition

by Larry Ceplair (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A political historian examines five of the twentieth century’s most significant revolutions, and the partnerships that led the way.

Successful revolution requires two triggering elements: a crisis or conjuncture and revolutionary actors who are organized in a dedicated revolutionary party, armed with a radical ideology, and poised to act. While previous revolutions were ignited by small collectives, many in the twentieth century relied on strategic relationships between two exceptional leaders: Marx and Engels (Communism), Lenin and Trotsky (Russia), Ghandi and Nehru (India), Mao and Zhou (China), and Castro and Guevara (Cuba). These partnerships changed the world.

In Revolutionary Pairs, Larry Ceplair tells the stories of five revolutionary struggles through the lens of famous duos. While each relationship was unique?Castro and Guevara bonded like brothers, Mao and Zhou like enemies?in every case, these leaders seized the opportunity for revolution and recognized they could not succeed without the other. The first cross-cultural exploration of revolutionary pairs, this book reveals the undeniable role of personality in modern political change.
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  1. Print length
    274 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    The University Press of Kentucky
  4. Publication date
    July 21, 2020
  5. File size
    3.7 MB
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"The gifted biographer and historian Larry Ceplair focuses on the intertwined lives of pairs of revolutionaries to enhance our understanding of the origins of Marxism and of the trajectory of four major revolutions that shaped the twentieth century."―Nicholas Bunnin, coeditor of The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy andcoauthor of The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy

About the Author

Larry Ceplair is the author of Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical, The Marxist and the Movies: A Biography of Paul Jarrico, and Anti-Communism in Twentieth-Century America: A Critical History.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B083QS6QB2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The University Press of Kentucky (July 21, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 21, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.7 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 274 pages
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