Francis King. The Narodniks in the Russian Revolution. Socialist History Occasional Pamphlet Series. London Socialist History Society, 2007. Illustrations. 114 pp. No price listed (paper), ISBN 978-0-9555138-2-4.

Sarah Badcock. Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2007. 280 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-87623-0.

Reviewed by Lutz Haefner
Published on H-HistGeog (June, 2009)
Commissioned by Eva M. Stolberg

Mittelweg 36. Zeitschrift des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung 19 (2010), 1

Die am 15. Februar erschienene neue Ausgabe des Mittelweg 36 ist Reinhard Müller gewidmet, der sich seit den frühen 1990er-Jahren am Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung der Stalinismus-Forschung verschrieben hat. Anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags wurde eine internationale Tagung zu deren aktuellen Perspektiven ausgerichtet, die einige der in dieser Ausgabe aufgenommenen Beiträge reflektieren.

Society for the Study of Labour History, 1960-2010
50th Anniversary Conference

Fifty Years of Labour History: Past Achievements, Future Prospects
Saturday, 15 May 2010
People's History Museum, Spinningfields, Manchester
The programme for the day is as follows:

10.00-10.30: Registration and Coffee

10.30am Welcome
Dr Alan Campbell, Chair, SSLH
Dr Nick Mansfield, Director, People's History Museum

Lara Vapnek's new book, Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920 (University of Illinois Press) tells the story of American labor feminism from the end of the Civil War through the winning of woman suffrage.

During this period, working women in the nation's industrializing cities launched a series of campaigns to gain economic equality and political power. This book shows how working women pursued equality by claiming new identities as citizens and as breadwinners.

Archief van Amnesty International!
Amsab-ISG verwerft het archief van Amnesty International Vlaanderen: zo'n 467 dozen, goed voor bijna 60 strekkende meter archief.
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International Women's Day events at the Working Class Movement Library
Saturday 6th March 2010,

Two events to mark International Women's Day.
Working Class Movement Library, 51 Crescent Salford M5 4WX

"Dear Sisters of the Earth": A History Walk Celebrating Manchester's Rebellious and Revolutionary Women
Sunday 28 February 2010.
Meet 10:45am, outside Central Library, St Peters Square.
The charge is £5.00
The walk will be led by Michael Herbert

This walk will explore the exciting history of Manchester's rebellious and revolutionary women. It will include the stories of women at Peterloo, the forgotten feminists of the 1830s, suffragists and suffragettes, the 2nd wave of feminism in the 1970s, Mrs Gaskell, Mother Ann Lee and Mary and Lizzie Burns.

Call for applications

To encourage the study of labor, Labor History is pleased to announce an annual Dissertation Prize for labor studies, broadly defined. In keeping with the journal's dedication to a multi-disciplined approach to the field, and its commitment to chronological and geographical breadth, the prize will be awarded to the best Ph.D. dissertation on a labor topic, historical or contemporary, in the US or worldwide, regardless of discipline.

Newsletter n. 2 – 9 febbraio 2010

Le novità della Fondazione e del sito
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Il Risorgimento e la nascita dell’Italia contemporanea è un progetto promosso dalla Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, in collaborazione con l’Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia e con la Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, e sostenuto dal contributo di Fondazione Cariplo.

Please find below [...] details of a forthcoming conference of the London Socialist Historians' group.

The Vote: WHAT WENT WRONG?

Saturday 27 February at 9.30am
Institute of Historical Research
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1

The recent scandal over MPs' expenses has raised major questions about parliamentary democracy and its relationship to the labour movement and the left.