The International Institute of Social History is offering four presentations of parts of its collections:

Mark Solomon, The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1998. viii + 403 pp. Introduction, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-57806-095-8.

Reviewed for H-POL by James G. Ryan, Department of General Academics, Texas A&M University at Galveston.
Published by H-POL, October 2000.

One Group's Liberation; Everybody's Freedom

Mark M. Smith, Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South. New Studies in Economic and Social History. Cambridge, England and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii + 117 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-57158-8.

Reviewed for H-SOUTH by Eric Tscheschlok, Department of History, Auburn University.
Published by H-SOUTH, October 2000.

W. Patrick McCray, Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice: The Fragile Craft. Brookfield, Vermont and Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1999. xii + 240 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography index. $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7546-0050-5.
Luca Molà, The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xix + 457 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography index. $48.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-6189-6.

Ronald Grigor Suny, The Soviet Experiment. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. xvii + 540 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references and index. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-19-508105-6.

Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Robert Lewis, Exeter University.
Published by H-RUSSIA, October 2000.

Understanding Twentieth-Century Russia

At the latest update (October 2000) the following sites were added to the WWW Virtual Library: Labour and Business History, bringing the total number to 1,662.

Just published are the first two volumes of a 10 volume edition of papers of Willy Brandt called the Berlin Edition.

The International Institute of Social History presented Mikhail Bakunin's Oeuvres complètes on a CD-ROM containing all known texts written by the Russian anarchist in both the original version and, whenever applicable, a French translation.

David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson, and Herbert S. Klein, The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. (User guide, xi + 89 pp.) $195, ISBN: 0-521-62910-1.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Lorena S. Walsh, Department of Historical Research, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Published by EH.NET, October 2000.

The Autumn 2000 issue of the London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter has been published and is now available for downloading from the LSHG web site at www.ch.u-net.com/lshg.