The Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project (SERAP) at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the publication of two new working papers:

Sheila Fitzpatrick, ed, Stalinism: New Directions. Rewriting histories. London, New York: Routledge, 2000. xviii + 377 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-415-15233-X; $25.99 (paper), ISBN 0-415-15234-8.

Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Dietmar Neutatz, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Duesseldorf, Germany.
Published by H-RUSSIA, September 2000.

Stalinism as a Culture

Russian Politico-Social Events in the Last Century
Center for Documents & Diplomatic History
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Teheran, 27-28 February 2001

Call for Papers

The Center for Documents and Diplomatic History of the Iranian Foreign Ministry intends to convene an international seminar on "The Russian Politico-Social Developments during the last Century" on 27-28 Feb. 2001.

The following subjects are to be examined:

The final program of the conference 'Explorations on the History of US Trotskyism' (September 29-October 1st) is now on the web at www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/trot.html.

Making Money Off Migrants: The Indonesian Exodus to Malaysia
Sidney Jones

William B. Husband, "Godless Communists:" Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. xvii + 241pp. Glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $36.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-87580-257-5.

Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Amy Nelson, Department of History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Published by H-RUSSIA, September 2000.

Three new working papers are available from the server of the International Institute of Social History:

Eugene V. Debs and the Politics of Dissent in Modern America
10-11 November 2000
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

Indiana State University and the Eugene V. Debs Foundation invite the academics interested in socialism and American electoral politics to attend a conference in Terre Haute, Indiana on the campus of Indiana State University. The program is listed below. For more information please email me.
From: Rich Schneirov, Dept of History Indiana State University, Hischnei@ruby.indstate.edu

Anthony Heywood, Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade, and the Railways, 1917-1924. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xviii + 328 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-62178-X.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Oliver Hayward, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha WI.
Published by EH-NET, September 2000.

Workshop Conference
6-8 April 2001
University of Durham, United Kingdom

Plenary Speakers: John Russo and Sherry Linkon, Centre for Working Class Studies, Youngstown State University, Ohio USA