George Padmore's African Revolution: Reviving Marxism-Leninism in the 20th Century Pan-African Tradition

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Abstract: This thesis is an intellectual biography of the Trinidadian anti-colonialist George Padmore (1903-1959), focusing on his life between 1927 and 1945. Drawing upon archival research in London, Moscow, and New York, it traces how Padmore's early conversion to Marxism as a member of the Communist International influenced his thinking on how to achieve African independence. Throughout the 1930s and 40s, Padmore was a central figure of Pan-African organizing in the Anglophone world and worked alongside black revolutionaries such as C.L.R. James, Jomo Kenyatta, and Kwame Nkrumah.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 11, 2020

Author	Jin, Berber
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of History
Primary advisor	Campbell, James T.
Advisor	Satia, Priya

Subject	George Padmore
Subject	Pan-Africanism
Subject	Black Britain
Subject	International African Service Bureau
Subject	Pan-African Congress
Subject	Black Marxism
Subject	Black Radical Tradition
Subject	International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
Subject	Stanford University History Department
Genre	Thesis

Related Publication	Jin, Berber. "George Padmore’s African Revolution: Reviving Marxist-Leninism in the Pan-African Tradition." Herodotus Undergraduate History Journal 30 (2020): 59-82.
Related item	Title James Birdsall Weter Prize for Outstanding History Honors Thesis
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Preferred Citation: Jin, Berber. (2020). George Padmore's African Revolution: Reviving Marxism-Leninism in the 20th Century Pan-African Tradition. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/ty444kz3390

Undergraduate Honors Theses, Department of History, Stanford University

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