Selected Works Of M.N. Roy Volume I: 1917-1922

Selected Works Of M.N. Roy #I

by M.N. Roy, Sibnarayan Ray (Editor)

During his career, M.N. Roy--one of the most prominent intellectual activists of the first half of this century--took an active and leading part in revolutionary movements in India, Mexico, the Soviet Union, and China. A prolific writer, he produced well over a hundred books and pamphlets, many of which will be included in the projected six-volume Selected Works. Covering the period from 1917 to 1922, the first volume includes his observations of the Mexican and early communist periods, and the entire text of his classic India in Transition.

Genres: India

600 pages, Hardcover

First published December 3, 1987

About the author

Manabendra Nath Roy (1887 – 1954), born Narendra Nath Bhattacharya, was an Indian revolutionary, radical activist and political theorist. Roy was a founder of the communist parties in Mexico and India, and a delegate to congresses of the Communist International and Russia's aide to China. Following the rise of Joseph Stalin, Roy left the mainline communist movement to pursue an independent radical politics. In 1940 Roy was instrumental in the formation of the Radical Democratic Party, an organisation in which he played a leading role for much of the decade of the 1940s. Roy later moved away from Marxism to become an exponent of the philosophy of radical humanism.