The complete text of Kenneth Rexroth’s Communalism: From its Origins to the Twentieth Century is now online at

www.slip.net/~knabb/rexroth/communalism.htm

Elena Zubkova, Russia after the War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments, 1945-1957. Trans. Hugh Ragsdale. "The New Russian History" series. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. x + 239 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $65.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7656-0227-X; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7656-0228-8.

Reviewed by Andrew Day, New York City.
Published by H-Russia (June, 2000).

Barbara Evans Clements, Bolshevik Women. New York and Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv + 338 pp. Illustrations, tables, footnotes, appendix, select bibliography and index. $65.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-45403-4; $25.95 (paper), 0-521-59920-2.

Reviewed by Mark Baker, Harvard University.
Published by H-Russia (June, 2000).

A Social History of Bolshevik Women

Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii, Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 198 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-08106-5.

Reviewed by Robert Argenbright, Earth Sciences Department, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Published by H-Russia (June, 2000).

Meanings of the Revolution

According to its latest Bulletin (no 23, 2000) the Centre de Recherches d'Histoire des Mouvements sociaux et du Syndicalisme (CRHMSS), a research centre at the University of Paris-1, is going to change its name to Centre d'Histoire sociale du XXe Siècle. More change is expected as the CNRS, the French organization for advanced research, is renewing its various programs.

The Bulletin also contains a list of the CRHMSS's recent publications:

Herbert Applebaum, The American Work Ethic and the Changing Work Force: An Historical Perspective. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1998. xvii + 228 pp. Bibliographical References, Index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-313-30677-x.

Reviewed by John Enyeart, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Published by H-PCAACA (May, 2000).

Jan van Bremen and Akitoshi Shimizu, eds, Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia and Oceania. Grant Evans, general editor. Anthropology of Asia Series. Richmond Surrey, U.K: Curzon Press, 1999. xi, 409 pages. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0700706046.

Reviewed by Paul Barclay, Department of History, Lafayette College.
Published by H-Asia (May, 2000).

Diaspora Paradigms: New Scholarship in Comparative Black History
Call for Papers

John Biggart, Georgii Glovelli, and Avraham Yassour, Bogdanov and His Work: A Guide to the Published and Unpublished Works of Alexander A. Bogdanov (Malinovsky) 1873-1928. Aldershot,England and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate, 1998. vii + 495 pp. Notes and appendices. $85.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-85972-623-2.

The Cuban Workers Confederation (CTC) and the Instituto de Historia de Cuba are pleased to invite researchers, scholars, journalists, trade unionists, information specialists, institutions, and organizations to participate in the Fourth International Scholarly Conference on May Day, to be held in La Habana, on April 25, 26 and 27, 2001.

The purpose of the conference will be to provide analyses and debates on workers' roles, their past and challenges at present in this early century, full of enormous challenges and difficulties to overcome.