To See the Dawn: Baku, 1920-First Congress of the Peoples of the East (Communist International in Lenins Time)
by John Riddell
Category: History

"How can peasants and workers in the colonial world achieve freedom from imperialist exploitation? How can working people overcome divisions incited by their national ruling classes and act together for common class interests? The questions--urgently posed today by the devastating social and economic consequences of the crisis in the world market system--were addressed in 1920 in an unprecedented conference of 2,000 delegates representing workers and peasants of more than two dozen peoples of Asia. The congress was convened by the Communist International in Baku, Azerbaijan, at a time when mass revolutionary struggles in surrounding Central Asia and in much of Europe, inspired by the victory of the 1917 workers' and peasants' revolution in Russia, gave hope of a new dawn for the world's toilers. ... contains the complete record of the Baku congress, together with an extensive selection of previously unpublished documents and photographs."--Page 4 of cover of 6th pbk. printing.