Voices of 1917

Mark D. Steinberg. Voices of Revolution, 1917. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. xiv + 404. Documents compiled by Mark D. Steinberg, Zinaida Peregudova, and Liubov Tiutiunik, and translated by Marian Schwarz. Afterword by Ekaterina Betekhtina. 1 Map, 11 black and white illustrations, chronology, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-3000-09016-1.

Stalinist Celebrations

Karen Petrone. Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. xii + 266. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-253-33768-2.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Robert W. Thurston, Department of History, Miami University.
Published by H-Russia, October 2003.

Celebrations, Complexity, and Contradictions: The Soviet Union on Parade

Revolutionaries in the Veneto

The Città di Monselice (Assessorato alla Cultura), the Università di Padova, and the Biblioteca Comunale San Biagio (Monselice), in cooperation with the Dipartimento di Storia dell'Università di Padova and the Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati", organize a conference on Socialismo, anarchismo e sindicalismo revolutionario nel Veneto tra otto e novecento. The conference takes place at the Castello di Monselice on October 12.

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Italians in the Gulag

The Fondazione Feltrinelli (Milan) and the Memorial association (Moscow) created a website on the Italian victims of the Soviet camp system. It consists of three parts. The first presents information (maps, chronology, history) on the Gulag in general. The second is dedicated to its Italian victims, with a database containing 1026 biographical notes. Moreover, there is a full bibliography on the Gulag, compiled by Hélène Kaplan.

The address is www.gulag-italia.it.

1956 Hungarian Revolution

Csaba Bekes, Malcolm Byrne, and Janos Rainer, eds. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents. National Security Archive Cold War Readers. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2002. L + 598 pp. Bibliographical references and illustrations. $67.95 (cloth), ISBN 963-9241-48-2; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 963-9241-66-0.

Globalizations and the African World

Throughout time, humans have crisscrossed regions of the world and the entire globe to share, trade, and conquer. Despite this constant in human history many see our present time as the "age of globalization." Especially during the last decade, demonstrations, meetings, books and documentaries have focused on this phenomenon, but not sufficiently on people of the African Diaspora. The Central Pennsylvania Consortium addresses this through the 2004 African American Studies Conference, "Globalizations and the African World" on February 27-28 at Gettysburg College.

Fondazione Amadeo Bordiga

The Amadeo Bordiga Foundation gives notice that an election will be held to two Research Scholarships in the topics:

  • Amadeo Bordiga and the 'Communist Left' in the context of the international socialist and communist movement
  • The Relevance today of Amadeo Bordiga's theoretic-political thought

Each Scholarship value amounts to € 1,500.00 (one thousand five hundred only), less applicable tax.

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