Book contents
- Revolutions in International Law
- Revolutions in International Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 International Law and Revolution
- Part I Imperialism
- Part II Institutions and Orders
- Part III Intervention
- 8 Intervention: Sketches from the Scenes of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions
- 9 Mexican Revolutionary Constituencies and the Latin American Critique of US Intervention
- 10 Mexican Post-Revolutionary Foreign Policy and the Spanish Civil War
- Part IV Investment
- Part V Rights
- Index
8 - Intervention: Sketches from the Scenes of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions
from Part III - Intervention
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2021
- Revolutions in International Law
- Revolutions in International Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 International Law and Revolution
- Part I Imperialism
- Part II Institutions and Orders
- Part III Intervention
- 8 Intervention: Sketches from the Scenes of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions
- 9 Mexican Revolutionary Constituencies and the Latin American Critique of US Intervention
- 10 Mexican Post-Revolutionary Foreign Policy and the Spanish Civil War
- Part IV Investment
- Part V Rights
- Index
Summary
We have been invited to consider the memory and significance of the October Revolution on this, its centennial, anniversary, and have been asked to do so alongside the surprise, colour and ineffable promise of Konstantin Yuon’s resplendent New Planet, which can be read ‘either as a will for change or as a fear of what is to come’.1 The year 1917 also saw the adoption of the Mexican Constitution, which had ‘legitimate pride in showing the world that it is the first to consign in a constitution the sacred rights of the workers’,2 and that had occurred in February of that tumultuous year,3 well before the Constitution of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic of July 1918 delivered its ‘declaration of rights of the labouring and exploited people’.4
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- Revolutions in International LawThe Legacies of 1917, pp. 183 - 217Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021