Soviet Elites

Gerald M. Easter, Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. New York and Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii + 221 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography and index. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-66085-8.

Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Nellie H. Ohr, McLean, Virginia.
Published by H-RUSSIA, November 2000.

Canadian Lumber

Gordon Hak, Turning Trees into Dollars: The British Columbia Coastal Lumber Industry, 1858-1913. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. ix + 239 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8020-4745-9; $22.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8020-8305-6.

Reviewed for EH.NET by William Marr, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Published by EH.NET, November 2000.

Globalism

Call for Papers

International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH), a semiannual journal published by Cambridge University Press, is currently soliciting papers for an upcoming special issue on "Globalism: The Regional Experience." A more detailed description of the proposed theme follows.

Encyclopedia of American Labor

Professors James Hanlan of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Robert Weir at Bay Path College are in the process of compiling an encyclopedia of American labor for Greenwood Press. We invite contributors for this venture.

The encyclopedia is designed for public libraries and novices, not labor history scholars. We seek writers who can:

Noel Butlin Archives Centre

Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre
Media Release
21 November 2000

ANU Thumbs Its Nose at Senate and Australian People As It Proceeds with Destruction of Archives

Staff of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre were yesterday informed that the ANU Executive had approved the cuts to the Archives proposed by University Librarian Colin Steele. Two of the four permanent staff will lose their jobs.