The Comintern and the Global South

Anne Garland Mahler is Associate Professor at the University of Virginia and author of From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke, 2018). She is director of Global South Studies and lead editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South (forthcoming). Paolo Capuzzo is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bologna. His current fields of research are the history of material culture, Global Communism, and Gramsci. Capuzzo is the author of Culture del consumo (2006), the co-editor, with S. Pons, of Gramsci nel movimento comunista internazionale (2019); and the co-author, with Partha Chatterjee and Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, of Gramsci in India (forthcoming).

Part One: Global Designs: The Comintern Imaginary

Introduction: The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters

1: Within and Against the World Market: The Marxian Laboratory of Internationalism

2: Before Baku: The Second International and the Debate on Colonialism (1900-1920)

3: Communism and the Colour-Line: Reflections on Black Bolshevism

Part Two: Local Encounters: Confluences and Conflicts

4: Via Kabul: Muhajirs turned Early Communists from India (1915-1923)

5: Pandurang Khankhoje in Mexico: Communism, Anti-imperialism, and Radical Agrarianism in a Post-revolutionary Setting

6: An Atlantic Revolutionary Brotherhood: Radical Networks, Local Realities, and the Challenges to the Comintern's Global Domain in the Caribbean Basin, 1920-1935

7: Pan-Islamism, South Asia, and Communist Internationalism

8: The Spanish Civil War Seen from the Far East: The Case of the Chinese Anarcho-communist Writer Ba Jin and the League of Left-wing Writers

Index