6th Annual Conference
University of Missouri-St. Louis
May 31st-June 1st, 2002

Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov. Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents. Documents compiled by Ludmila Kosheleva, Larisa Rogovaia, Lewis Siegelbaum, Andrei Sokolov, Vladimir Telpukhovsky, and Sergei Zhuravlev. Translated by Thomas Hoisington and Steven Shabad. "Annals of Communism" series. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. xvii + 460 pp. Includes bibliographical references, photographs, and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-08480-3.

Robert Harms. The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. New York: Basic Books, 2002. xxv + 466 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, index. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-465-02871-3.

Reviewed by Thomas N. Ingersoll, Department of History, Ohio State University, Lima.
Published by H-Atlantic (February, 2002).

Into those Waves, Never to Return

Christian F. Ostermann. Uprising in East Germany 1953: The Cold War, The German Question, and The First Major Upheaval Behind the Iron Curtain. National Security Archive Cold War Readers. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2001. xxxvii + 451 pp. Index. $63.95 (cloth), ISBN 963-9241-17-2.

Reviewed by Ruud van Dijk, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Published by H-German (March, 2002).

David R. Stone. Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union 1926-1933. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. viii + 287 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7006-1037-5.

Reviewed by Lohr E Miller, Louisiana State University.
Published by H-Russia (January, 2002).

The Crime of Moderation

Political Pressure and the Archival Record
Liverpool University - LUCAS - Centre for Archival Studies
Liverpool, UK, 22-25 July 2003

Preliminary Call for Papers -- Keynote Speakers

The principal themes of this international conference are:

With the addition of a detailed inventory of the Bund (Jewish Social Democratic Party) archive the web guide to the unique and manifold yiddish collection of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam is now completed. Please see:

www.iisg.nl/collections/yiddish/yidsearch.html#bund

Karin Hofmeester [MAILTO]kho@iisg.nl[/MAILTO]
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
www.iisg.nl

Venus Green. Race on the Line: Gender, Labor and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. xv + 370. Illustrations, tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-2554-3; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-2573-x.

Reviewed for H-South by Michael French, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow, Scotland. April 2002.

Glenn Adler and Eddie Webster, eds. Trade Unions and Democratization in South Africa, 1985-1997. International Political Economy Series. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xvii + 238 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography, index. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-312-22253-X.

Reviewed by Franco Barchiesi, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Published by H-SAfrica (February, 2002)

Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson. Adolf Douai, 1819-1888: The Turbulent Life of a German Forty-Eighter in the Homeland and in the United States. New German American Studies; Neue Deutsch-Amerikanische Studien. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. 364 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $67.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8204-4881-8.

Reviewed by Walter D. Kamphoefner, Department of History, Texas A&M University.
Published by H-GAGCS (January, 2002)