African Americans have always been engaged with the global world. The Russian Revolution of 1917 is no exception. Black thinkers, at the height of Jim Crow, colonialism and imperialism, were very interested in alternative models of social, political and economic organization. Below please find a list of links which chronicle the African American engagement with the Russian Revolution during the long twentieth century up to the present.
NOTE--This informational blog is compiled by (with the exception of the introduction and photograph) and reprinted with permission from Abdul Akalimat, PhD.
Communist International
http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/CR75.html https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/2nd-congress/ch04.htm https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/2nd-congress/ch05.htm
Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/feb/00b.htm
Trotsky
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1940/negro1.htm
W. E. B. DuBois https://therealnews.com/amonteiro0214pt4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKXglS90qn4
Paul Robeson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT2qnM3s0Cc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XywrJKNDKAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn5bMM0mIvg https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/paul-robeson-testifies-before-huac/
Lovett Ford-Whiteman https://srbpodcast.org/2019/05/21/the-reddest-of-the-blacks/
Loren Miller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8lIBxnWc20
James Cannon, The Russian Revolution and the Black Struggle in the United States https://www.marxists.org/archive/cannon/works/1959/black.htm
Afro-Russians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Russians
Books
Walter Rodney, The Russian Revolution: A View From the Third World https://www.versobooks.com/books/2724-the-russian-revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v71Pa-xRhRQ
David Featherstone, Christian Høgsbjerg, The Red and The Black: The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Red_and_the_Black/fxxdEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=african+americans+and+the+Russian+revolution+of+1917&printsec=frontcover
Winston James, Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik http://cup.columbia.edu/book/claude-mckay/9780231135931
Harry Haywood, Black Bolshevik https://www.lulu.com/shop/harry-haywood/black-bolshevik/paperback/product-4j6rmy.html?page=1&pageSize=4 https://www.google.com/search?q=HARRY+HAYWOOD&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSjfnry877AhU8BTQIHf41Dx8Q_AUoBHoECAMQBg&biw=1152&bih=507&dpr=1.67#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:1d0ba627,vid:B6EHlr9xjRE
Joy Carew, Blacks, Reds and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/blacks-reds-and-russians/9780813549859
Robert Robinson, Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union, an autobiography https://www.amazon.com/Black-Red-Years-Inside-Soviet/dp/0874918855
Lily Golden, My Long Journey Home https://thirdworldpressfoundation.org/product/my-long-journey-home-hardcover/
Yelena Khanga and Susan Jacoby, Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865 - 1992 https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780393034042
Christopher Silsby, African American Performers in Stalin's Soviet Union: Between Promise and Racial Propaganda (CUNY PhD Dissertation) https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi11-rmg8L7AhUunokEHRrTC0IQFnoECCMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Facademicworks.cuny.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D3873%26context%3Dgc_etds&usg=AOvVaw0GUs8Z1AZj1OHO3VfmEqSM
Videos
Black journalists in Russia https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/behind-story-black-journalists-russia-and-eurasia
Black Russians https://theredandtheblack.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/black-russians-the-red-experience/
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