Bill V. Mullen is Professor of American Studies at Purdue University. He is the author of James Baldwin: Living in Fire and UnAmerican: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution, amongst other books.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Revolutionary Lives Matter - Reclaiming W.E.B. Du Bois for Our TimePart I: Racial Uplift and the Reform Era1. Childhood, Youth and Education in an Age of Reform2. Becoming a Scholar and Activist 3. Socialism, Activism and World War IPart II: From Moscow to Manchester, 1917-454. Du Bois and the Russian Revolution5. The Depression, Black Reconstruction, and Du Bois’s Asia Turn6. Pan-Africanism or Communism?Part III: Revolution and the Cold War, 1945-637. Wrestling with the Cold War, Stalinism and the Blacklist8. The East is Red: Supporting Revolutions in Asia9. Final Years, Exile, Death and LegacyNotesBibliographyIndex

'This is Marxist biography at its finest. W.E.B. Du Bois is the rare scholarly book that evokes the feeling that our own moment of radical challenge reverberates with the trials of another century, but Mullen proposes an internationalist perspective that re-enchants the story of this activist-intellectual with immediacy'

Bill V. Mullen is Professor of American Studies at Purdue University. He is the author of James Baldwin: Living in Fire and UnAmerican: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution, amongst other books.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Revolutionary Lives Matter - Reclaiming W.E.B. Du Bois for Our TimePart I: Racial Uplift and the Reform Era1. Childhood, Youth and Education in an Age of Reform2. Becoming a Scholar and Activist 3. Socialism, Activism and World War IPart II: From Moscow to Manchester, 1917-454. Du Bois and the Russian Revolution5. The Depression, Black Reconstruction, and Du Bois’s Asia Turn6. Pan-Africanism or Communism?Part III: Revolution and the Cold War, 1945-637. Wrestling with the Cold War, Stalinism and the Blacklist8. The East is Red: Supporting Revolutions in Asia9. Final Years, Exile, Death and LegacyNotesBibliographyIndex

'This is Marxist biography at its finest. W.E.B. Du Bois is the rare scholarly book that evokes the feeling that our own moment of radical challenge reverberates with the trials of another century, but Mullen proposes an internationalist perspective that re-enchants the story of this activist-intellectual with immediacy'

Bill V. Mullen is Professor of American Studies at Purdue University. He is the author of James Baldwin: Living in Fire and UnAmerican: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution, amongst other books.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Revolutionary Lives Matter - Reclaiming W.E.B. Du Bois for Our TimePart I: Racial Uplift and the Reform Era1. Childhood, Youth and Education in an Age of Reform2. Becoming a Scholar and Activist 3. Socialism, Activism and World War IPart II: From Moscow to Manchester, 1917-454. Du Bois and the Russian Revolution5. The Depression, Black Reconstruction, and Du Bois’s Asia Turn6. Pan-Africanism or Communism?Part III: Revolution and the Cold War, 1945-637. Wrestling with the Cold War, Stalinism and the Blacklist8. The East is Red: Supporting Revolutions in Asia9. Final Years, Exile, Death and LegacyNotesBibliographyIndex

'This is Marxist biography at its finest. W.E.B. Du Bois is the rare scholarly book that evokes the feeling that our own moment of radical challenge reverberates with the trials of another century, but Mullen proposes an internationalist perspective that re-enchants the story of this activist-intellectual with immediacy'