The Autumn 2000 issue of the London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter has been published and is now available for downloading from the LSHG web site at www.ch.u-net.com/lshg.

Howell John Harris, Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 456 pp. $44.95. (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-58435-3.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Daniel Jacoby, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program, University of Washington, Bothell.
Published by EH.NET, October 2000.

The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association, the Southwest Labor Studies Association, and the Western Labor Communications Association 2001 Joint Conference
3-6 May 2001 in Portland, Oregon

Call for Papers, Presentations, Exhibits and Performances

The Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project (SERAP) at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the publication of two new working papers:

Sheila Fitzpatrick, ed, Stalinism: New Directions. Rewriting histories. London, New York: Routledge, 2000. xviii + 377 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-415-15233-X; $25.99 (paper), ISBN 0-415-15234-8.

Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Dietmar Neutatz, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Duesseldorf, Germany.
Published by H-RUSSIA, September 2000.

Stalinism as a Culture

Russian Politico-Social Events in the Last Century
Center for Documents & Diplomatic History
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Teheran, 27-28 February 2001

Call for Papers

The Center for Documents and Diplomatic History of the Iranian Foreign Ministry intends to convene an international seminar on "The Russian Politico-Social Developments during the last Century" on 27-28 Feb. 2001.

The following subjects are to be examined:

The final program of the conference 'Explorations on the History of US Trotskyism' (September 29-October 1st) is now on the web at www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/trot.html.

Making Money Off Migrants: The Indonesian Exodus to Malaysia
Sidney Jones

William B. Husband, "Godless Communists:" Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. xvii + 241pp. Glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $36.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-87580-257-5.

Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Amy Nelson, Department of History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Published by H-RUSSIA, September 2000.

Three new working papers are available from the server of the International Institute of Social History: