Rethinking Revolutions from 1905 to 1934

This edited collection offers a timely and original perspective on the many socio-political upheavals and revolutions that broke out across the world during the early-twentieth century. With previous research tending to confine revolutions within national borders, this book sets out to reconsider these turning points in history by placing them within a broader global sphere of thought and action. The authors explore the culmination of political turbulence on a global scale, including examples from South Africa, Australia, China, the Middle East and Latin America, and seek to answer questions about the beginnings and endings of uprisings and protest periods. Were political hopes and fears across Europe related to a proletarian revolution rooted in the nineteenth century, or did the period of unrest from 1905 to 1934 lead to the beginning of the global Cold War and the anti-colonial struggles of the late-twentieth century? They also discuss the extent to which revolutions faced competition from other social culturally and politically diverse social movements. Providing insights from leading scholars in the field, this collection highlights the interconnectedness and transnationalism of social, political and intellectual revolts during the twentieth century, offering news insight through the combination of political social and cultural historical approaches. Chapter 8 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University in the UK. Stefan co-edits, with Holger Nehring, Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements, and has published widely on comparative labour history, deindustrialisation studies, industrial heritage, the history of historiography and nationalism studies. Klaus Weinhauer is Professor of Modern History at Bielefeld University, Germany. His research explores transnational and comparative history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a special focus on labour history, urban violence, security, d policing, and juvenile delinquency.