Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - Volume 130, Issue 3, 2017

Abstract A down payment on future prowess. The memory of a revolution that failed In November 1918 revolutionary soldiers, sailors, and socialist workers took to the streets of German cities such as Düsseldorf, Halle, Leipzig, Braunschweig, and Berlin. For a moment it seemed as though the revolutionary fervour would spill over the border into the Netherlands. Three thousand Dutch revolutionaries, accompanied by four hund Read More

Abstract David Wijnkoop. Troublesome intermediary between Amsterdam and Moscow The Social-Democratic Party (SDP) of David Wijnkoop was, like the Bolsheviks, one of the first parties to break away from the social-democratic parties of the Second International. Like an intermediary Wijnkoop used the authority of Moscow to support his position as a leader of the Dutch left socialist movement and was able to develop Read More

Abstract The Russian Revolution was not an anarchist revolution. Dutch anarchists and the Russian Revolution 1917-19 The reactions of Dutch anarchists to the Russian Revolution are until now as good as unexplored. This contribution tries to fill this gap by analyzing five anarchist and syndicalist newspapers. Together they represent the whole spectrum of Dutch anarchism. The anarchists and their newspapers can be d Read More

Abstract Hammer and sickle. From foreign state weapon to Dutch party symbol Ever since its inception in Soviet Russia during the spring of 1918, the hammer and sickle has remained one of the most recognizable political symbols, used on a worldwide scale. Although the symbol was designed merely as a Soviet substitute for the old czarist coat of arms, foreign communists were quick to adopt it as the most prominent symbol Read More

Abstract ‘People of Java, the Russian Revolution contains lessons for you too’. Indonesian socialism, Bolshevism, and the spectre of anarchism The Russian Revolution influenced the burgeoning socialist movement in the Dutch Indies and the late-colonial political landscape of the Indies in general in three ways. First, the revolution and Sneevliet’s article ‘Zegepraal’ escalated tension between a ‘parliamentary’ and a ‘revolut Read More

Abstract Enlightenment and the revolutionary press in colonial Indonesia. An investigation of Sinar Hindia’s content, production, and distribution practices The 1917 revolutions inspired the popularization and radicalization of the nascent anti-colonial movement in the Indies, which is reflected in the history of the revolutionary press which emerged in the subsequent years until 1926-7. This article recovers the tradition of the re Read More

Abstract Red erasure. The silenced memory of Anton de Kom’s communism In 1934 the Afro-Surinamese author and activist Anton de Kom published his Wij slaven van Suriname (We Slaves of Surinam). De Kom drew inspiration from his experience and life in Surinam, as well as from the writings of abolitionist authors and the communist and anti-imperialist circles in which he moved while in Europe. Back in Surinam he wa Read More