Stalinism as a Way of Life

Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov. Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents. Documents compiled by Ludmila Kosheleva, Larisa Rogovaia, Lewis Siegelbaum, Andrei Sokolov, Vladimir Telpukhovsky, and Sergei Zhuravlev. Translated by Thomas Hoisington and Steven Shabad. "Annals of Communism" series. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. xvii + 460 pp. Includes bibliographical references, photographs, and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-08480-3.

East-German Uprising of 1953

Christian F. Ostermann. Uprising in East Germany 1953: The Cold War, The German Question, and The First Major Upheaval Behind the Iron Curtain. National Security Archive Cold War Readers. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2001. xxxvii + 451 pp. Index. $63.95 (cloth), ISBN 963-9241-17-2.

Reviewed by Ruud van Dijk, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Published by H-German (March, 2002).

Politics and Archives

Political Pressure and the Archival Record
Liverpool University - LUCAS - Centre for Archival Studies
Liverpool, UK, 22-25 July 2003

Preliminary Call for Papers -- Keynote Speakers

The principal themes of this international conference are:

Work in the Bell System

Venus Green. Race on the Line: Gender, Labor and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. xv + 370. Illustrations, tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-2554-3; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-2573-x.

Reviewed for H-South by Michael French, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow, Scotland. April 2002.

South African Trade Unions

Glenn Adler and Eddie Webster, eds. Trade Unions and Democratization in South Africa, 1985-1997. International Political Economy Series. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xvii + 238 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography, index. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-312-22253-X.

Reviewed by Franco Barchiesi, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Published by H-SAfrica (February, 2002)