The Russian Revolution and India

The October Revolution undoubtedly produced a radicalising effect on the Indian situation from the very beginning. At the end of World War I, India was astir with workers' strikes and massive demonstrations against British repression. Peasant unrest was also growing. It was this awakened India, entering the mass phase of its fight for independence, which looked to the Russian Revolution and to its leader Lenin for inspiration and help. They further saw that Lenin and other leaders of Soviet Russia stood for a new social order in which exploitation of man by man is ended, an order based on brotherhood, equality and cooperation of men, and had established a society in which the working class and the toiling people had come into their own and taken over the reins of administration to build socialism. This volume contains several articles and essays concerning the Indian national movement and the support extended by Russia. In particular, the essays related to the lives of the expatriate Indian revolutionaries in Europe and the meeting of Indian revolutionaries with Lenin are of interest in this volume. The views of Indian national leaders like M.K. Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, B.G. Tilak among others on Russian Revolution are also included. In short, this volume will be useful to understand the support extended by Russia to the Indian national movement during the first half of the twentieth century. Please note: This title is co-published with Aakar Books, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print edition in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Maldives or Bhutan)

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. India's First Envoys to Revolutionary Russia -- 2. The Story of a Telegram -- 3. The First Russian Revolution and India -- 4. Tilak and the 1905-1907 Revolution in Russia -- 5. Mahatma Gandhi on the Russian Revolution of 1905 -- 6. Non-Violence: Gandhi and Lenin -- 7. Tolstoy, Gandhi and India -- 8. Galvanising Impact of the October Revolution on India's National-Liberation Movement -- 9. Lenin and the Liberation Struggle in India -- 10. India's Response to Lenin -- 11. Lenin and the Indian Patriots

12. Lenin and Indian Revolutionaries -- 13. New Light on Bombay Events of 1908 -- 14. New Light on Old Indian Revolutionary -- 15. Progressive Indians and Our Country -- 16. Pioneers of India's Liberation Movement Acclaimed the October Revolution -- 17. October Revolution and Indian Immigrants in Germany -- 18. Indian Emigre Revolutionaries in Soviet Russia -- 19. Bhikaji Rustomji Cama and the Russian Revolutionaries -- 20. A Russian Revolutionary and His Indian Friends -- 21. First Mention of Marx in Indian Writings -- 22. Indian Revolutionaries' Pamphlets in Soviet Libraries

23. A Find in the Archives …