Revoluções. Michael Löwy, Editor (In Brazilian Portuguese)

Good+

Clean, firm, and square. The front cover is bumped at the bottom corner; back cover bumped at the top spine. Moderate edge wear. Bump to top page corner persists for roughly thirty pages.

The pages are clean and bright. Free of markings.

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In this book, the Brazilian sociologist based in France brings together the main photographic records of revolutionary processes from the late 19th century to the second half of the 20th century. The book invites the reader to explore the diverse experience of popular struggles through historical images, such as the first photographic records of the Paris Commune. This journey is narrated by intellectuals such as Gilbert Achcar, Rebecca Houzel, Enzo Traverso, Bernard Oudin, Pierre Rousset, Jeanette Habel, and Löwy himself.


In the words of Luiz Bernardo Pericás, who wrote the book's blurb, "the barricades of the Paris Commune, the peasants and soldaderas in arms in Mexico, the workers in the Russian soviets, the aborted revolutions in Germany and Hungary, the anarchist and socialist partisans in the Spanish Civil War, the Long Red March in China and the bearded guerrillas of the Sierra Maestra in Cuba are some of the moments of struggle and the anonymous 'heroes' presented in this book."

(Boitempo blog)