This volume explores the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was catalysed or profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of 1917, including C.L.R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodney and Grace P. Campbell.

David Featherstone is Professor of Political Geography at the University of Glasgow.

Christian Høgsbjerg is a Senior Lecturer in Critical History and Politics in the School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Brighton

Alan Rice is Professor in English and American Studies at UCLan, Preston, co-director of the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR) and director of the Research Centre in Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX)