Lynn Viola, Sergei Vladimirovich Zhuravlev, Tracy MacDonald, Andrei Nikolaevich Mel'nik, eds. Riazanskaia derevnia v 1929-1930 gg Khronika golovokruzheniia: Dokumenty i materialy. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1998. xliv + 703 pp. Maps, notes. No price listed (cloth), ISBN 5-86004-175-6.
Reviewed by: Mark B. Tauger, Department of History, West Virginia University.
Published by: H-Russia (April, 2002)
Call for Papers
Seventh European Social Science History Conference
University of Lisbon, Portugal, 27 February - 1 March 2008
The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions.
The European Workshop of Communist Studies
New Issues - Call for Contributions:
The International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online
No 18 (2005) and No 19 (2006) (ISSN 1862-698X)
Der Internationale Newsletter der Kommunismusforschung Online
La newsletter internationale des recherches sur le communisme online
The Working Class Movement Library has supplied historical material for displays in Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre to accompany the current production of 'Mary Barton'. Set in Manchester the 1840s the play is based on the novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, one of Manchester's famous writers, which drew on her own experiences in the city as the wife of a Unitarian minister. The play tells the dramatic story of Mary and her father John and is set against the backdrop of poverty, strikes and the radical political agitation of the Chartists.
New publication on the anti-globalization movement
Francine Mestrum & Donald Weber (eds.), Inside Outside: Past and Future of the Anti-globalization Movement.
Ghent: IALHI / Amsab-ISH / Foundation Kreveld, 2006, 110 p. ISBN 90-77122-20-6.
Price: 10 euro (plus shipping fee) - order at [mailto]orders@amsab.be[/mailto]
The Autumn 2006 issue of the London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter has been published and can be downloaded from the LSHG web site.
It contains an article by Neil Faulkner about his project with Pete Glatter to construct a grand narrative of the global crisis of 1914-21, a review by Tobias Abse of William Fishman's East End Jewish Radicals and Rudolf Rocker's The London Years, and a review by Geoff Brown of Dave Renton's When We Touched the Sky.
Imagination and commitment
Representations of the social question
International Conference, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
10-11 May 2007
Call for papers
The Tamiment Library at New York University is pleased to announce that it has acquired the library of the Reference Center for Marxist Studies and the Archives of the Communist Party, USA. The library includes extensive monograph and serials holdings, as well as the Communist Party's pamphlet files (1920-date). The bulk dates for the archival collection is from 1950 to the present.
University Press of Florida announces a new book series in labor and working-class studies: Working in the Americas
Working in the Americas is a new series from the expanding University Press of Florida devoted to publishing important works in labor history, labor relations and working-class studies in the Americas. We seek work that uses both traditional as well as innovative, interdisciplinary, or transnational approaches. Our focus is the Americas and the lives of its workers.
We welcome inquires and proposals.
Postone, Moishe: Zeit, Arbeit und gesellschaftliche Herrschaft. Eine neue Interpretation der kritischen Theorie von Marx. Freiburg: ça-ira-Verlag 2003. ISBN 3-924627-58-4; 616 S.; EUR 34,00.
Heinrich, Michael: Kritik der politischen Ökonomie. Eine Einführung (=Theorie.org). Stuttgart: Schmetterling Verlag 2004. ISBN 3-89657-582-1;234 S.; EUR 10,00.
Derrida, Jacques: Marx & Sons (= stw 1660). Frankfurt am Main: SuhrkampTaschenbuch Verlag 2004. ISBN 3-518-29260-9; 135 S.; EUR 9,00.
