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.
Karen Petrone. Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. xii + 266. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-253-33768-2.
Reviewed for H-Russia by Robert W. Thurston, Department of History, Miami University.
Published by H-Russia, October 2003.
Celebrations, Complexity, and Contradictions: The Soviet Union on Parade
The Città di Monselice (Assessorato alla Cultura), the Università di Padova, and the Biblioteca Comunale San Biagio (Monselice), in cooperation with the Dipartimento di Storia dell'Università di Padova and the Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati", organize a conference on Socialismo, anarchismo e sindicalismo revolutionario nel Veneto tra otto e novecento. The conference takes place at the Castello di Monselice on October 12.
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The Fondazione Feltrinelli (Milan) and the Memorial association (Moscow) created a website on the Italian victims of the Soviet camp system. It consists of three parts. The first presents information (maps, chronology, history) on the Gulag in general. The second is dedicated to its Italian victims, with a database containing 1026 biographical notes. Moreover, there is a full bibliography on the Gulag, compiled by Hélène Kaplan.
The address is www.gulag-italia.it.
There is a new register about archives of social movements in German-speaking countries out now:
Bernd Hüttner: Archive von unten. Bibliotheken und Archive der neuen sozialen Bewegungen und ihre Bestände. AG SPAK Bücher, 2003, ISBN 3-930830-40-X, 180 p. 15 Euro.
Csaba Bekes, Malcolm Byrne, and Janos Rainer, eds. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents. National Security Archive Cold War Readers. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2002. L + 598 pp. Bibliographical references and illustrations. $67.95 (cloth), ISBN 963-9241-48-2; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 963-9241-66-0.
Throughout time, humans have crisscrossed regions of the world and the entire globe to share, trade, and conquer. Despite this constant in human history many see our present time as the "age of globalization." Especially during the last decade, demonstrations, meetings, books and documentaries have focused on this phenomenon, but not sufficiently on people of the African Diaspora. The Central Pennsylvania Consortium addresses this through the 2004 African American Studies Conference, "Globalizations and the African World" on February 27-28 at Gettysburg College.
The Amadeo Bordiga Foundation gives notice that an election will be held to two Research Scholarships in the topics:
Each Scholarship value amounts to € 1,500.00 (one thousand five hundred only), less applicable tax.
Rules:
The Victor Serge Library, Moscow's library of alternative and radical literature, has now reopened in new premises. Its organisers are making plans to expand further in the coming period. Please take a few minutes to look at a new web site, established by the Friends of the Victor Serge Library to provide information about the library in English, at www.sergelibrary.org.
