The Russian Revolution in Asia

Introduction 1. Transnational Communism and Asia: A Precocious Encounter Section One: The Revolution in Russia's Borderlands 2. From Autonomy to an Asian Revolution: Koreans and Buryat-Mongols in the Russian Imperial Revolution and the Soviet New Imperialism, 1917-1926 3. A Colonial Revolution: The Revolutions of 1917 in Semirech'e 4. Freedom on the Fence: The Caucasian Borderlands and the Boundaries of Revolution Section Two: The Wider Arc of Revolution in Asia 5. The Bolshevik Infection: European Perspectives on Communism in the Netherlands East Indies Press 6. The Comintern, the Communist Party of the United States, and Chinese Networks in the Prewar Philippine Communist Movement (1920-1942) 7. (Un)preparing a Revolution: The Comintern in the Prelude to the 1926-1927 Uprisings in Indonesia 8. Revolutions as Transnational Events: The Russian Revolution and Vietnam 9. The Russian Revolution in the Indian Nationalist Imaginary 10. From Political to Cultural Symbol: Moscow Restaurant and the Evolution of Sino-Soviet Relations Section Three: Islam and the Revolution 11. Revolutionary Situation in Turkestan (February 1917-February 1918): The Local Dynamics of the Russian Revolutions 12. Between Backwardness and Revolution: The Equivocal Genesis of "Crimes of Ways of Life" in the First Soviet Penal Code, 1919-1924 13. The Russian Revolutions and the Emergence of the Indonesian Communist Movement: Understanding the Relationship between Islam and Communism