LUCAS is pleased to announce that the programme and booking form for the major international conference "Political Pressure and the Archival Record" is now available on its website at
www.liv.ac.uk/lucas/Political_pressure_files/polpressurehome.htm
Confronting Vietnam: Soviet Policy toward the Indochina Conflict, 1954-1963
New Volume in Cold war International History Project Book Series Available
Ilya Gaiduk, former CWIHP Fellow and Kennan Institute ECA Regional Exchange Scholar is the author of the latest volume in the CWIHP Books Series (Stanford University Press/WWC Press).
Based on extensive research in the Russian archives, this book examines the Soviet approach to the Vietnam conflict between the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and late 1963, when the conflict was radically transformed.
Political Transfer: The Use of Foreign Examples in Politics, 1789-1960
International Conference
Groningen, the Netherlands, 14-16 January 2004
First Announcement and Call for Papers
A new book on the Spanish Communist Party has just been published:
Víctor Manuel Santidrián Arias, Historia do PCE en Galicia, 1920-1968, Sada, Ediciós do Castro, 2003.
Fundación 10 de Marzo
República do Salvador, 15, 5º
15701 Santiago de Compostela
Galicia-España
Tel: +34 981 591816, +34 981 599765
Fax: +34 981507081
Email f10m.sn@galicia.ccoo.es
In 2000 IISH researcher Sjaak van der Velden wrote a dissertation analysing 14,000 database records on Dutch strikes between 1830 and 1995. The IISH is about to publish this database on it's Website. In the mean time Van der Velden worked on another project, a database containing more than 800 records on Dutch lock-outs between 1830 and 2000. This data will also be published on the IISH-Website later this year.
H-Net Network on American communism and anticommunism
Sponsored by H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences On-line, Michigan State University
ABOUT H-HOAC
Social Democratic Politics in Britain 1881-1911 by Graham Johnson
The first phase of an exciting new online resource was launched last week. THE UNION MAKES US STRONG website at www.unionhistory.info will present a history of the British trade union movement since the early 19th century, based on digitised images from the TUC Library Collections.
This first phase includes a Timeline of images and documents from 1815-1960 and a History of the 1888 Match Workers Strike including digitised pages from the Strike Fund Register.
Book presentation on the occasion of the Leipzig Book Fair 2003
Hermann Weber, Bernhard H. Bayerlein (eds.): Der Thälmann-Skandal. Geheime Korrespondenzen mit Stalin, Berlin, Aufbau-Verlag, 2003. app. 365 p. Series: Archive des Kommunismus - Pfade des XX. Jahrhunderts, vol. II
Reading and discussion with Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Hermann Weber and Dr. Bernhard H. Bayerlein
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Werner Bramke
Saturday, 22.03.2003, 17.30 h
Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig, Grimmaische Straße 6, 04109 Leipzig (near the marketplace)
Gender- und Frauengeschichte im Historischen Forschungszentrum der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung : Bestaende im Archiv der Sozialen Demokratie und in der Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung / Sabine Boltzendahl und Ilse Fischer. - Bonn : Historisches Forschungszentrum der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2003. - 190 S. : Ill. ISBN 3-89892-148-4.
