Chris Ward. Stalin's Russia. London, New York: Edward Arnold. Distributedin the USA by Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1993. 2nd edn. co-published in the USA by Oxford University Press, New York, 1999. xxvi + 278 pp. Maps, glossary, notes, bibliography and index. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-340-73151-6.
Reviewed for H-List by Andreas Umland, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine.
How Much Self-Reflection Does Stalinism Studies Need?
New Documents from Todor Zhivkov's Personal Records
The latest issue of Matériaux pour l'Histoire de Notre Temps, (no 68, octobre-décembre 2002) is dedicated to 'Historiens et usages publics du passé. Allemagne, Italie, Russie'.
This is the table of contents:
The New York Labor History Association (NYLHA) invites submissions of articles for its Labor History News Service.
Since 1984 NYHLA has offered labor newspapers a Labor History News Service that distributes to subscribers a labor and working class history article every month. These articles appear in dozens of subscribing labor union publications around the United States.
We would like to invite submission of articles for distribution. We are now paying $100 for each 800-word piece we accept.
The 7th International Conference on Philippine Studies (7th ICOPHIL)
"The Philippines: Changing Landscapes, Humanscapes, and Mindscapes in a Globalizing World"
The Netherlands (Leiden-Amsterdam) 16-19 June 2004
Organised by the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden
More than sixty years after her death, radical activist Emma Goldman's experiences of censorship and deportation continue to resonate strongly with our current political climate, and her courage in fighting for unpopular causes still inspire even people who disagree with her beliefs. Explore Goldman's life and work in a new on-line exhibit produced by the Jewish Women's Archive, in collaboration with the Emma Goldman Papers. The exhibit, available at
You are invited to "The Young Marx's Political Theory: New Light on an Old Debate", a seminar sponsored by the Centre for Twentieth-Century Cultural Studies, Historical Materialism, and Verso.
Participants:
Conference on Socialism and Capitalism at the New Stage
We will have an international conference in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on socialism and capitalism at the new stage. In fact the topics can be wide. Left scholars are invited to participate. The conference will be held from May 11th to May 13th, 2003. We can provide board and room in China, but cannot reimburse travel costs.
For further information contact:
Liu Yuanqi cctbmlb@95777.com
Translation Bureau for Foreign Marxist Literature
In 2002 the Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek (Labour Movement Archives and Library) in Stockholm organized the conference "The International Labour Movement on the Threshold of Two Centuries". We have now several of the (revised) papers on our web site. Not all of them -- some are still being revised and are on their way. In due course they too will be published on our web site, so keep a look out for them. Others will be published in periodicals, and as soon as I have specific information about this, we will place complementary information about these articles on our web site.
The Tamiment Library at New York University is pleased to announce its spring seminar series.
April 10, 2003 (Thursday)
Professor Barbara Weinstein (History Department, University of Maryland), "Making Workers Masculine: The (Re)Construction of Male Worker Identity in Modern Brazil." Comment by Dr. Daniel Bender (Princeton University).
