{"id":839,"date":"2017-07-02T09:05:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T13:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/?p=839"},"modified":"2017-07-02T09:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T13:11:42","slug":"riddells-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/2017\/07\/riddells-tower.html","title":{"rendered":"Riddell’s Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Clocking in at a mere seven hundred pages, give or take, The Communist Movement at a Crossroads: Plenums of the Communist International\u2019s Executive Committee, 1922-1923<\/em>, the eighth volume of John Riddell’s awesome edition of documents from the Comintern in Lenin’s time, will be out later this year<\/a>. (As with everything in the Historical Materialism book series, it will then be issued in paperback by Haymarket; in this case, in 2018.)<\/p>\n

While understanding and respecting the value of limiting the series to the period of the first four Congresses, I really wish someone would prepare a comparable edition of the next three. Especially the Sixth and Seventh, which still weigh like a nightmare on the brains of the living (as somebody once put it). The Marxist Internet Archive makes a great many Comintern documents from all periods<\/a> available, and I was especially glad when it made available a number of issues<\/a> of International Press Correspondence<\/em>, including most of the Sixth Congress proceedings. But Riddell’s work sets the standard, and I hope someone will emulate it to prepare a comprehensive edition of “The Communist International After Lenin’s Time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clocking in at a mere seven hundred pages, give or take, The Communist Movement at a Crossroads: Plenums of the Communist International\u2019s Executive Committee, 1922-1923, the eighth volume of John Riddell’s awesome edition of documents from the Comintern in Lenin’s time, will be out later this year. (As with everything in the Historical Materialism book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}