The International Newsletter of Communist Studies

Der Internationale Newsletter der Kommunismusforschung
La newsletter internationale des recherches sur le communisme
Международный бюллетень исторических исследований коммунизма
La Newsletter Internacional de Estudios sobre el Comunismo
A Newsletter Internacional de Estudos sobre o Comunismo

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Contributors,

We are pleased to be able to give you two good news:

Klaus Tenfelde (1944–2011)

Klaus Tenfelde, in recent decades Germany’s most influential historian of labour and the working class, died on 1 July 2011, just seven weeks after he had retired from “his” Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum. In retirement, Tenfelde had hoped to continue work on his substantial “History of the Ruhr”, but a deceptive illness prevented it. Tenfelde is survived by his wife, Ellen and their two children.

Ministerio de la Guerra (1931-1939): tiempos de paz, tiempos de guerra

Inauguración exposición "Ministerio de la Guerra (1931-1939): tiempos de paz, tiempos de guerra".
Madrid. Museo de la Ciudad 27 de septiembre

Don Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, Alcalde de Madrid y Don Jesús Pérez Martínez, Presidente de la Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero le invitan a la inauguración, en Madrid, de la exposición "Ministerio de la Guerra, 1931 – 1939. Tiempos de Paz, Tiempos de Guerra", que tendrá lugar el martes 27 de septiembre a las 19: 30 h. en el Museo de la Ciudad - C/ Príncipe de Vergara, 140.

Utoya - Labour Youth's own island. Images from 1933 to 1959

On 22 July 2011, 69 people were killed on the island Utøya near Oslo, at the annual summer camp of the Workers' Youth League (Arbeidernes ungdomsfylking, AUF), the youth wing of the Norwegian Labour Party.

The island Utøya was owned by the Oslo Trade Union Confederation from 1932 to 1950, then it was presented to the Workers' Youth League. It has been used for summer camps and other activities by the Labour movement for decades.

Les socialistes d'Epinay au Panthéon

Les socialistes d’Épinay au Panthéon, une décennie d’exception (1971-1981)

17-18 novembre 2011 (Paris)

Colloque organisé par :
Le Centre d’histoire du XXe siècle (CHS), Université de Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, UMR 8058,
Le Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po (CHSP), Fondation nationale de Sciences Politiques,
La Fondation Jean-Jaurès,
L’Office Universitaire de Recherche socialiste (OURS).

PROGRAMME

1er jour : 17 novembre 2011,
Lieu : CHS du XXe siècle, 9 rue Malher, 75004

René Kuczynski Prize 2011 awarded to the German historian Tanja Penter

René Kuczynski Prize 2010 awarded to Tanja Penter
for her book:

Kohle für Stalin und Hitler. Arbeiten und Leben im Donbass 1929-1953
Essen: Klartext Verlag 2010 (= Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für soziale Bewegungen. Schriftenreihe C: Arbeitseinsatz und Zwangsarbeit im Bergbau; vol. 8), 467 pp., ISBN 978-3-8375-0019-6

The awarding ceremony will take place in connection with the opening of ITH's 47th Linz Conference on 29 September 2011 at Jägermayrhof in Linz, Austria.