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Nikpour's article explores the emergence of new iterations of Islamic universalism in the mid-twentieth century by examining two important 1960s texts that are rarely if ever discussed in the same context: The Autobiography of Malcolm X and a travelogue titled Khasi Dar Miqhat (Lost in the Crowd) by Iranian intellectual Jalal al-e Ahmad. Malcolm X's famous autobiography was published in 1965, just a few months after both he and Al-e Ahmad had returned to Iran from the hajj trip that is narrated in the 1966 Khasi Dar Mighat. Nikpour argues that these hajj texts signal a new political and ethical imaginary of the anticolonial era. Malcolm X and Jalal Al-e Ahmad were both political thinkers whose lives were marked by restless intellectual and political exploration. Though both men had worldly concerns, they are each more generally read from within the provincial national concerns found in American and Iranian studies respectively. Whereas Malcolm's sudden death in 1965 is often interpreted as the tragic cutting short of his newfound ethical engagements, Al-e Ahmad's abrupt death in 1969 is seen as minor footnote in the locomotive momentum of the Islamic ideology of the Islamic Republic he is said to have helped found with his writing. This essay asks whether it is possible to read the ethical horizons imagined by these political theorists without collapsing them into common tropes of black nationalism (for Malcolm) and linear precursors to the 1979 Iranian revolution (Al-e Ahmad).

Examines media images of the response to the Irish Republican Army's declaration of cease-fire in Aug 1994. Images of the people of West Belfast starkly illustrated the strength of particular cultural symbols during the initial peace or victory celebrations, even as Sinn Fein's revolutionary ideology was being reformulated, & even though it might shift again should negotiations fail. Beyond the faces loomed another potent image of potential change -- the absence of British security forces -- which suggested that policial violence, both state & insurgent, had perhaps been rendered redundant. How the working conceptions of revolution championed by Irish revolutionaries compare to more academic definitions is also discussed. 3 References. M. Maguire

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Since at least the mid-seventeenth century, the concept of revolution has been an important tool both for those seeking to bring about political change and for those trying to understand it. And it is as relevant today as it has ever been. This volume re-evaluates our understanding of the history of revolutionary thought by examining a selection of key texts. These range from the 17th to the 20th century, and are carefully chosen to include both constitutional documents and theoretical works by figures such as James Harrington, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maximilian Robespierre, Peter Kropotkin and Deng Xiaoping Each chapter engages with a particular revolutionary moment via a specific text, usually an extract of around 300 words, and considers the significance of the text for the history of revolutionary thought. The structure of the book allows readers to make connections and comparisons across the different revolutionary texts and moments, thereby providing a broader, deeper and more nuanced understanding of revolutions. Stimulating, accessible and interdisciplinary, Revolutionary Moments will appeal to students and researchers in the history of political thought and intellectual history, and beyond.

From Native Rights to Natural Equality : The Agreement of the People (1647) / Rachel Foxley -- James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana and a Revolution in the Language of Politics / Rachel Hammersley -- Revolution Principles / Mark Knights -- A revolution menagee' : Mably's Des Droits et des devoirs du citoyen / Kent Wright -- Rousseau and Revolutions / Richard Whatmore -- Exclusion at the Founding : The Declaration of Independence / Robert Parkinson -- Securing Liberty : The Federalist Papers / T. G. Rodgers -- Revolution, Reform and the Political Thought of Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes / Michael Sonenscher -- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, August 1789 : A Revolutionary Document / Lynn Hunt -- Paine's Rights of Man and the Religiosity of Rights Doctrines / Gregory Claeys -- Virtue and Terror : Maximilien Robespierre on the Principles of the French Revolution / Marisa Linton -- The Haitian Declaration of Independence : Recognition, Freedom and Anti-French Sentiment / Julia Gaffield -- A Lesson in Revolution : Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto / Julian Wright -- From National Backwardness to Revolutionary Leadership : Alexander Herzen's Book On the Development of Revolutionary Ideas in Russia / Derek Offord -- George Plekhanov and the Marxist Turn in Russia / Christopher Read -- Ordinary Miracles : Lenin's Call for Revolutionary Ambition / Lars T. Lih -- Revolution and Evolution : Kropotkin's Anarchism / George Crowder -- Revolutionary Cultivation : Liu Shaoqi's How to be a Good Communist (1939) and the Rejection of Confucian Tradition / Jonathan J. Howlett -- Between Socialist Futures : Mao Zedong on the 'Ten Major Relationships' / Daniel Leese -- Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth : Embodying Anti-Colonial Action / Xavier Guegan -- Social Imperialism and Mao's Three Worlds : Deng Xiaoping's Speech at the UN General Assembly, 1974 / Jennifer E. Altehenger.

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Writing about the life of Olive Schreiner, Ruth First hoped that biography could capture the dilemmas of a white South African woman and writer at the turn of the twentieth century, caught in a world that made her, but in which she could not bear to live as it was. Ruth First too struggled her entire life against the injustices of race and class in southern Africa, but she did so with a confidence, joy and energy that Schreiner never achieved. Written on the basis of conversations with Ruth First in Mozambique in the last period of her life, this paper explores the possibilities and dilemmas posed by her commitment to a disciplined collective revolutionary project embedded in strong nationalist movements.