To date we have received many interesting paper proposals for the oncoming Rethinking Social Democracy conferences. Due to a large level of interest we have encountered despite summer vacations we have decided to extend a deadline to 10th November 2003 and hope to hear from many more candidates.

The original call for papers may be found at www.ialhi.org/news/i0307_3.php.

Any queries can be forwarded to this address:

William J. Billingsley. Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. vii + 308 pp. Tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8203-2460-4.

Reviewed by Joy Ann Williamson, School of Education, Stanford University.
Published by H-Education (August, 2003)

Civil Rights, Communism, and the Fight for Institutional Control

David McKnight. Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial Heritage. Studies in Intelligence Series. London: Frank Cass, 2002. xiv + 226 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $57.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-7146-5163-X.

Reviewed by Frederick Wettering, Social Sciences Department, Lake-Sumter Community College.
Published by H-Diplo (August, 2003).

Communist Parties and Soviet Espionage

Steven High, Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xi + 306 pp. $55 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8020-3738-0.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Robert M. Schwab, Department of Economics, University of Maryland.
Published by EH.NET (September 2003).

The Reuther Library is pleased to announce that the following new collections will be open for research at the North American Labor History Conference in October:

Labor History Editor's Statement

Call for papers
International Review of Social History Supplement 13 (2005)
Editors: Marco van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas and Andrew Miles

Introduction

Mark D. Steinberg. Voices of Revolution, 1917. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. xiv + 404. Documents compiled by Mark D. Steinberg, Zinaida Peregudova, and Liubov Tiutiunik, and translated by Marian Schwarz. Afterword by Ekaterina Betekhtina. 1 Map, 11 black and white illustrations, chronology, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-3000-09016-1.

Amir Weiner. Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton, New Jersey, and Oxford, England: Princeton University Press, 2001. xv + 416 pp. Tables, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0691 05702 8.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Mark Harrison, Department of Economics, University of Warwick.
Published by H-Russia, October 2003.

Madhavan K. Palat, ed. Social Identities in Revolutionary Russia. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave St. Martins, 2001. xv + 246. Glossary, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-333-92947-0.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Michael C. Hickey, Department of History, Bloomsburg University.
Published by H-Russia, October 2003.