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:
Eugene V. Debs and the Politics of Dissent in Modern America
10-11 November 2000
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
Indiana State University and the Eugene V. Debs Foundation invite the academics interested in socialism and American electoral politics to attend a conference in Terre Haute, Indiana on the campus of Indiana State University. The program is listed below. For more information please email me.
From: Rich Schneirov, Dept of History Indiana State University, Hischnei@ruby.indstate.edu
Anthony Heywood, Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade, and the Railways, 1917-1924. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xviii + 328 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-62178-X.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Oliver Hayward, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha WI.
Published by EH-NET, September 2000.
Workshop Conference
6-8 April 2001
University of Durham, United Kingdom
Plenary Speakers: John Russo and Sherry Linkon, Centre for Working Class Studies, Youngstown State University, Ohio USA
Anna Geifman, Entangled in Terror; The Azef Affair and the Russian Revolution. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Inc., 2000. Ix + 247 pp. Notes, selected bibliography and index. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8420-2651-7; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8420-2650-9.
Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Sarah Badcock, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Durham.
Published by H-RUSSIA, September 2000.
'Not a friend, a disciple or a believer'
Alexander Dallin and F. I. Firsov, editors, Dimitrov and Stalin, 1934-1943: Letters from the Soviet Archives. Russian documents translated by Vadim A. Staklo. Annals of Communism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. xxx + 278pp. Photographs, maps, facsimiles, notes, and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-08021-2.
Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Barbara Keys, Harvard University.
Published by H-RUSSIA, September 2000.
