num_pages: 144
description: Like the brilliant sun the October Revolution shone over all five continents awakening millions of oppressed and exploited people around the world. There has never existed such a revolution of such significance and scale in the history of humanity.  H Ch Minh From Cuba to Vietnam from China to South Africa the October Revolution remains as an inspiration. After all that Revolution proved that the working class and the peasantry could not only overthrow an autocratic government but that it could form its own government in its image. It proved decisively that the working class and the peasantry could be allied. It proved as well the necessity of a vanguard party that was open to spontaneous currents of unrest but which could guide a revolution to completion. This book explains the power of the October Revolution for the Third World. It is not a comprehensive study but a small book with a large hope  that a new generation will come to see the importance of this revolution for the working class and peasantry in that part of the world that suffered under the heel of colonial domination. Vijay Prashad is the Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author or editor of several books including The Darker Nations: A Biography of the Short-Lived Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (both from LeftWord). He is a columnist for Frontline and Alternet. He is Chief Editor at LeftWord Books.
language: English
title: Red Star Over the Third World
publisher: LeftWord Books