Ibidem press (Stuttgart/Hannover) announces completion of the publication of the first 20 volumes of the new trilingual book series "Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society" (ISSN 1614-3515).

The editors of the Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies (www.pipss.org) invite scholars and experts to submit papers for publication in a special issue on "Women and Military Institutions in Russia and the Post-Soviet Area."

Jeffrey Rossman, Worker Resistance under Stalin: Class and Revolution on the Shop Floor, Harvard University Press.

Challenging the claim that workers supported Stalin's revolution "from above" as well as the assumption that working-class opposition to a workers' state was impossible, the book shows how a crucial segment of the Soviet population opposed the authorities during the critical industrializing period of the First Five-Year Plan.

Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht, The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century, Cornell University Press.

Loi de séparation des Églises et de l’État

The text of the law of 9 December 1905 on the separation of church and state in France is republished by the Feltrinelli Foundation and can be downloaded from www.feltrinelli.it/Fondazione/testo-ritrovato-loi.htm

Labour History
A Journal of Labour and Social History
Number 89 * November 2005

THEMATIC SECTION
THE 'EXTREME RIGHT' IN 20TH CENTURY AUSTRALIA
EDITED BY ANDREW MOORE

Writing About the Extreme Right in Australia
Andrew Moore

The Australian Right, the American Right and the Threat of the Left, 1917-35
Nick Fischer

Arthur Nelson Field: Kiwi Theoretician of the Australian Radical Right?
Marinus La Rooij

The New Guard and the Labour Movement, 1931-35
Andrew Moore

The Fondazione Turati (Florence) recently published a new title:

Maurizio Degl'Innocenti, Identità nazionale e poteri locali in Italia tra '800 e '900. Piero Lacaita Editore. Collana "Strumenti e Fonti". Euro 15,00

For more information:
Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati"
Via M. Buonarroti, 13
50122 Firenze

www.pertini.it/turati.html

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.

Winners will receive an award of £750 / $1500, and publicity in both the journal and the Labor History website.

Amsab-Institut d’Histoire Sociale vous invite à un débat sur l'Agence de Presse Libération-Belgique (APL-B) le 9 décembre 2005 à 19 heures au Pianofabriek, rue du Fort 35 à Saint-Gilles.

L'Agence de Presse Libération-Belgique a diffusé un bulletind'information sur les luttes sociales et politiques entre 1972 et 1991.Ce n'était ni une organisation politique, ni un groupe lié à un parti,mais un collectif autogéré qui voulait offrir la possibilité auxlecteurs de faire circuler des idées, expériences ou critiques favorisant un changement de société.

Call for papers
From: Yves Cohen, ,
Directeur d'Etudes à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

International Conference Labour and Organisation: Research Combining History and Ethnography

Maison mediterraneenne des sciences de l'Homme, Aix-en-Provence, France
May 30-31 2006