A comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China.

Introduction: Capitalist modernity and Communist revolution; 1. Memories of home: native-place identity in the city; 2. The awakening self: individuality and class identity; 3. After patriarchy: gender identities in the city; 4. Saving the nation: national and class identities in the city; 5. Workers and Communist revolution.

Steve Smith is Professor of History at the Department of History, University of Essex. His previous publications include Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895-1927 (2002), A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920-27 (2000) and Red Petrograd: A Revolution in the Factories, 1917-18 (1983).