Laura Hapke, American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s (Cambridge Scholars Press, U.K.,2008). The book scrutinizes intersections between the burgeoning and tumultous unionism of the Great Depression and its representation (or omission) in New Deal art.

Discussions of forty illustrations from a labor historical perspective by artists such as Raphae Soyer, Dox Thrash, Isabel Bishop, and Hugo Gellert illuminate both relationships and tensions between WPA artists and the labor subjects they were hired to depict.

Liebe KollegInnen

Der Bericht von der Tagung

Alte Linke - neue Linke?
Die Protestbewegungen der 1968er Jahre in Westdeutschland und Europa; des Gesprächskreis Geschichte der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung und des Fachschaftsrates Psychologie der Universität Hamburg (Programm siehe [url]http://www.rosalux.de/cms/index.php?id=15252[/url])

ist online:
[url]http://www.rosalux.de/cms/index.php?id=15252&type=0[/url]

Der Prager Frühling 1968. Zivilgesellschaft - Medien - Politische und kulturelle Transferprozesse

Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam, Institut für Zeitgeschichte an der Akademie der Wissenschaften der Tschechischen Republik, Hannah-Arendt-Instituts für Totalitarismusforschung in Dresden, Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Prag 15.06.2008-17.06.2008, Senatssaal des Parlaments der Tschechischen Republik

Der Prager Frühling 1968

Lih, Lars T.: Lenin Rediscovered. What Is to Be Done? in Context (= Historical Materialism 9). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers 2006. ISBN 9-004-13120-5; geb.; 867 S.; EUR 134,00.

Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Marcel Bois, Universität Hamburg
E-Mail: [mailto]marcel.bois@gmx.de[/mailto]

Hoppe, Bernd: In Stalins Gefolgschaft. Moskau und die KPD 1928-1933 (= Studien zur Zeitgeschichte). München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 2007. ISBN 978-3-486-58255-0; 395 S.; EUR 54,80.

Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Andreas Malycha, Forschungsstelle Zeitgeschichte, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin an der Charité BerlinE-Mail: [mailto]andreas.malycha@charite.de[/mailto]

Halfin, Igal: Intimate Enemies. Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition, 1918-1928 (= Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies).
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 2007. ISBN 978-0-822-95952-6; brosch.; 432 S.; EUR 20,99.

Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Julia Herzberg, Universität Bielefeld
E-Mail: [mailto]netslov@web.de[/mailto]

New Pamphlet: Salvador Puig Antich and the MIL (Movimiento Iberico de Liberacion)

Salvador Puig Antich was a revolutionary murdered by the state in Barcelona in the last years of the Franco regime. This volume looks at the struggle of the MIL, both in the context of the times, and the light of current attempts to 'rehabilitate' him as a martyr for capitalist 'democracy'.

Mai 68 - Mai 08
Radio Pavé

Le MOC lance une web radio
en direct de Mons, du 5 au 31 mai

Pour marquer le coups des 40 ans de mai 68, le Mouvement Ouvrier Chrétien veut donner la parole, libre, populaire, impertinente.
Il a créé une web radio ([url]http://www.radiopave.be[/url]) qui émettra tous les soirs de mai, en direct de 18h à 20h, depuis le Bateau Ivre, sur la Grand Place de Mons.

Re-Reading Read: New Views on Herbert Read,
edited by Michael Paraskos and published by the Freedom Press, London

The Freedom Press has just published a new collection of essays on the anarchist writer Herbert Read (1893-1968).

Based on the papers given at the 2004 Herbert Read Conference, held in London, the book includes essays by sixteen writers, including Allan Antliff, Jerry Zaslove and Dana Ward. The topics range from Read's anarchist politics, to his own literary work, as well as his theories of art, literature and culture.List of essays:

IISH News Service May 6, 2008
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New items on the IISH website in April 2008:

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/charlestilly.php[/url]
On 29 April the American sociologist and historian Charles Tilly died. For twenty years he served the IISH as a formal and informal adviser, and made significant contributions to our academic and editorial policies.