Sheila Fitzpatrick. Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s.. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. x + 227 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-505000-2; $13.95 (paper), ISBN 0-19-505001-0
Reviewed by Nellie H. Ohr, Independent Scholar.
Published by H-Russia (March, 2000)
The Care and Feeding of Homo sovieticus
The October 1999 issue (vol 7, no 2) of Anarchist Studies is devoted to Anarchism and Science Fiction.
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From 17 to 19 November 1999, the IV Encuentros de Investigadores del Franquismo were organized by the Fundació d'Estudis i Iniciatives Sociolaborals (FEIS) and the Contemporary History Department of the University of Valencia. The 120 contributions were collected in a volume, Tiempos de Silencio: Actas del IV encuentro de Investigadores del Franquismo, which was intended for distribution among the conference participants. In response to persistent demand the volume has now been reprinted and is available at a price of 5,000 pesetas.
To order please get in touch with:
The Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France published a special issue on "Anarchisme et création littéraire", Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, no 3, 192 p, FF 130.
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Clare Wightman. More than Munitions: Women, Work and the Engineering Industries, 1900-1950. Women and Men in History. London: Longman, 1999. 224 pp. Bibliographic references and index. $42.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-582-41435-0.
Reviewed by Richard A Greenwald, Department of Cultural and Historical Studies, SUNY-Orange.
Published by H-Women (February, 2000)
"It's the Economy Stupid: Or Why Gender is not a Useful Category of Analysis"
The Centre d'Histoire et de Sociologie des Gauches is organizing a conference on "Solidarités internationales", which is to take place in Brussels in March 2001. The meeting is to examine different international organizations, from International Red Aid to Amnesty International, that operate as instruments of solidarity with the victims of repression and war.
Proposals for papers have to be adressed before June 30, 2000, to:
The Verlag Gegenseitige Hilfe / Editions Entraide (Postfach 526, CH-1001 Lausanne, Switzerland) has published Hommage à la Non-Violence: ein großer freiheitlicher Erzieher: Pierre Ramus (1882-1942), 130 pp, 'Les Nouveaux Humanistes", 4, price SFr 20.
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The Web site of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives (Cornell University) presents UNITE! And Its Predecessor Unions: A Selected Scholarly Bibliography compiled in February 2000 by Reference Archivist Patrizia Sione and two student assistants, Brian W. McCarthy and Tatjana Starkeova.
Amy Dru Stanley. From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Era of Slave Emancipation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi + 277 pp. Index, Bibliography. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-41470-9; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-521-63526-8.
Reviewed by Daniel Hamilton, Harvard University.
Published by H-SHEAR (February, 2000)
Jeno Gyorkei and Miklos Horvath, eds. Soviet Military Intervention in Hungary, 1956. Trans Emma Roper Evans. Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999. xv + 318 pp. Tables, photographs, maps, endnotes, biographical notes. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 963-9116-36-X; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 963-9116-35-1.
Reviewed by Johanna Granville, Clemson University.
Published by Habsburg (January, 2000)
New Insights on the 1956 Crisis
