Who Killed Kirov?

Amy Knight, Who Killed Kirov? The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery.New York: Hill and Wang, 1999. xiv + 331 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, and index. US$26.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8090-64049.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Frank Schauff, PhD candidate, Department of Eastern European History, University of Cologne.
Published by H-Russia, March 2001.

The Greatest Mystery?

Making Social Movements

Making Social Movements: The British Marxist Historians and the study of social movements

First Call for Papers

June 26-28, 2002, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, England

Conference sponsors:
Social Movements Research Group, London Socialist Historians Group, Historical Materialism

Confirmed Speakers:
Brian Manning, author The English People and the English Revolution; Bryan D Palmer, author E.P. Thompson: Objections and Oppositions; Ellen Wood, author Democracy Against Capitalism

Consequences of Deindustrialization

The Societal Consequences of Deindustrialization, 1750-2000
Call for Papers

Deindustrialization is due to various causes, principal among which is loss of competitiveness (as a result of sources being exhausted, inferior product quality, a generally high level of costs, or adverse government policy); it can also be the result of technological advances, however, or management decisions to relocate production facilities, for whatever reason.

Ewan MacColl

The Ewan MacColl wing of the Working Class Movement Library website is now open and can be entered at www.wcml.org.uk/em/timeline.html.

Ewan MacColl will be known to most people as a songwriter, and as a singer, but he was also of significant influence in the worlds of theatre and radio broadcasting. He was a committed socialist all his life and his political sensibilities underpinned all his creative activities.

Marxism 2001

International Conference: "Marxism 2001"

Date: June 21-23, 2001
Sponsor: Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences
Place: Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, southwestern China. China's most ethnically, geographically and bio-diverse province.