The Azef Affair

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'

Dimitrov and Stalin

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.

Labor History

Labor History seeks a new managing editor, to begin a five year term on January l, 2002. The editorial board has determined to restructure the journal's operations. The new editor's functions will include managment and innovation. The incoming editor will be able to review and oversee all aspects of the journal from manuscript solicitation to publication and distribution.

Joe Hill

In November it will be 85 years ago that Joe Hill, whose name was Joel Hägglund when he left Sweden for the USA in 1902, was executed in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was one of the best-known members of the Industrial Workers of the World -- particularly so because he wrote some of their most famous songs.

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