Freemasonry in Radical Movements

From: "Cordery, Simon" SIMON@monm.edu

The link below provides details for the following conference:

'We Band of Brothers': Freemasonry in Radical and Social Movements, 1700-2000

A Conference organised by:
The Centre For Research into Freemasonry
The Centre for Gender Studies in Europe
The Society for the Study of Labour History
and
The Friendly Societies Research Group

The Tapton Masonic Hall, Shore Lane, Fulwood, Sheffield S10 3BU, England
November 18-20 2004

Mass Uprisings in the USSR

Vladimir A. Kozlov. Mass Uprisings in the USSR: Protest and Rebellion in the Post-Stalin Years. Translated and edited by Elaine McClarn and MacKinnon. Armonk, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. xix + 351pp. Notes and index. $29.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-7656-0668-2.

Reviewed for H-Russia by David L. Ruffley, Department of History, Colorado College.

"Symbiotic Signals?" Mass Uprisings After Stalin

Incomka

The Incomka product has been installed and is available for research use at the Library of Congress. Incomka includes scanned images of 1,059,354 pages of Communist International records held at the Russian State Archives of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) in Moscow. This is approximately 5% of the total volume of Comintern record. A committee of historians of the Incomka project picked the fond/opisi to be scanned.

Alessandro Schiavi

La Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati" comunica che, con la collaborazione e il contributo del Comitato forlivese per le onoranze ad Alessandro Schiavi ha avviato la pubblicazione per i tipi Lacaita di

ALESSANDRO SCHIAVI - SCRITTI E CARTEGGI

American Labour History

I maintain a site I call "History at the Department of Labor" ("History@DOL" for short). It focuses on the Department but also deals with labor history. For example, it includes the full text of the Department's 1976 book, The American Worker, a history written by distinguished academic labor historians for the national Bicentennial. There are also articles from the Department's Monthly Labor Review, a few conference papers (mine), historical documents by or about the Department, and much more.

Housework Day

Carola Sachse. Der Hausarbeitstag: Gerechtigkeit und Gleichberechtigung in Ost und West, 1939-1994. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2002. 504 pp. Index. EUR 32.00 (paper), ISBN 3-89244-508-7.

Reviewed by Jennifer Loehlin, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Published by H-German (January, 2004)

Dusting off the Housework Day

East Germany under Ulbricht

Patrick Major and Jonathan Osmond, eds. The Workers' and Peasants' State: Communism and Society in East Germany under Ulbricht 1945-71. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002. xv + 304 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, index. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7190-6289-6.