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THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER OF COMMUNIST STUDIES ONLINE Der Internationale Newsletter der Kommunismusforschung La newsletter internationale des recherches sur le communisme Международный бюллетень исторических исследований коммунизма La Newsletter Internacional de Estudios sobre el Comunismo A Newsletter Internacional de Estudos sobre o Comunismo VOL. XV (2009), NO 22 Edited by Bernhard H. Bayerlein and Gleb J. Albert Published by The European Workshop of Communist Studies With support of The Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany ISSN 1862-698X ISSN Y503-1060 (for the Print Edition) The International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online XV (2009), no 22 2 Executive Editor: Bernhard H. Bayerlein, Mannheim/Cologne/Potsdam. Assistant Editor: Gleb J. Albert, Mannheim/Cologne ([email protected]). Editorial Board/Correspondents: Aldo Agosti (Torino) [email protected], Lars Björlin (Stockholm) [email protected], Cosroe Chaqueri (Paris) [email protected], Sonia Combe (Paris) [email protected], Putnik Dajic (Belgrade) [email protected], Gérard Donzé (La Chaux-de-Fonds) [email protected], Jean- François Fayet (Geneva) [email protected], Jan Foitzik (Berlin) foitzik@ifz- muenchen.de, José Gotovitch (Bruxelles) [email protected], Sobhanlal Datta Gupta (Calcutta) [email protected], Gabriella Hauch (Linz) [email protected], John Haynes (Washington) [email protected], Victor Heifets (St. Petersburg) [email protected], Gerd-Rainer Horn (Coventry) [email protected], Peter Huber (Geneva) [email protected], Fritz Keller (Vienna) [email protected], Klaus Kinner (Leipzig) [email protected], Todor Kuljic [email protected], Avgust Lesnik (Ljubljana) [email protected]; Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam) [email protected], Aurelio Martin Najera (Madrid) [email protected], Kevin McDermott (Sheffield) [email protected], Barry McLoughlin (Vienna) [email protected], Kevin Morgan (Manchester) [email protected], Jorge Nóvoa (Salvador, Bahia) [email protected], [email protected], Alexander Pantsov (Columbus, Ohio) [email protected], José Pacheco Pereira (Lisbon-Brussels) [email protected], Tauno Saarela (Helsinki) [email protected], Wolfgang Schlott (Bremen) [email protected], Daniela Spenser (México DF) [email protected], Dubravka Stajic (Belgrade) [email protected], Brigitte Studer (Berne) [email protected], Frantisek Svátek (Prague) [email protected], Jérémie Tamiatto (Paris) [email protected], Carola Tischler (Berlin) [email protected], Reiner Tosstorff (Frankfurt am Main) [email protected], Feliks Tych (Warsaw) [email protected], Berthold Unfried (Vienna) [email protected], Zdenek Vasicek (Prague) [email protected], Aleksandr Vatlin (Moscow) [email protected], Gerrit Voerman (Groningen) [email protected], Marc Vuilleumier (Genève) [email protected], Frank Wolff (Bielefeld) [email protected], Rolf Wörsdörfer (Darmstadt) [email protected] Advisory Board: Prof. Dr. Marjan Britovsek †, Ljubljana; Prof. Dr. Pierre Broué †, Grenoble; Prof. Dr. Marc Ferro, Paris; Prof. Dr. Dietrich Geyer, Tübingen; Prof. Dr. Lazar Heifets, St. Petersburg; Prof. Dr. Charles Kecskeméti, Paris; Prof. Dr. André Lasserre, Lausanne; Prof. Dr. Thomas Lindenberger, Potsdam/Vienna; Prof. Dr. Richard Lorenz, Kassel; Prof. Dr. Vera Mujbegovic, Belgrade; Prof. Dr. Jutta Scherrer, Paris/Berlin; Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hermann Weber, Mannheim; Prof. Dr. Serge Wolikow, Dijon. Editorial Address: Dr. Bernhard H. Bayerlein, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), Universität Mannheim, Postfach, 68 131 Mannheim, Germany. Postal Adress: Arnulfstr. 14, 50937 Köln/Cologne, Germany Phone and Fax: 0049 (0)221 42 27 06 E-Mail: [email protected] – [email protected] Homepage: http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/projekte/incs/ Communist Studies Newsletter/Mailinglist: https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/communist-studies-newsletter The International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online XV (2009), no 22 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. The Newsletter of the Newsletters: Communist Studies Newsletters – New issues/ Selected Items. • Communist History Network Newsletter • Estudos sobre o Comunismo • H-HOAC • London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter • Aktuelles aus der DDR-Forschung ........................... 8 II. News on Archives, Fonds and Institutions. • New Archival Guide on CPSU Files in RGASPI • Digitalisierungsprojekte des VfA • New ROSSPEN Series "History of Stalinism • Declassifications in Russian Archives • Bucharin and Boguslavskij Archival Fonds • "Archivbericht Russland" • Bundism.net • Clio-online Findmittelkatalog • CPGB Bibliography • CPUSA Exhibition Online • Fonds Thorez- Vermeersch • Trotzkismus-Archiv der FES • Sonderarchiv Moskau • Neue ukrainische Archivalien der BSB .............................................................................................................. 11 III. Research Projects and Dissertations – Work in Progress. • Michel Christian (Geneva, Switzerland): Party and Society in the German Democratic Republic and in Socialist Czechoslovakia. PhD Project ....................................................... 18 • Frédéric Cyr (Montréal, Canada): Paul Levi and the Politics of the German Left 1918-1930: From Revolutionary to Defender of the Republic. PhD Project ………………………….…… 20 • Adrian Grant (Derry, UK): Irish Socialist Republicanism, 1909-1936. PhD Project ............ 21 • Kostis Karpozilos (Rethymno, Greece): Labor Unions, Radicalism and the Communist Left in the Greek-American Communities (1920-1950). PhD Project .......................................... 23 • Heikki Larmola (Helsinki, Finland): The Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968 and the Soviet Laboratory of Finland: The Beginning Decline of the Communist Movement. Research Project ................................................................................................................................... 25 • Stefan Karner, Peter Ruggenthaler (Graz, Austria): Der „Prager Frühling“ 1968. Internationales Forschungsprojekt ........................................................................................ 29 • Raquel Varela (Lisbon, Portugal): The Role of the Portuguese Communist Party in the Portuguese Revolution of 25 April 1974 to 25 November 1975. PhD Project ………………. 31 • Peter Waterman (The Hague, The Netherlands): From International Communism to the Global Justice and Solidarity Movement. Memoirs of a Long-Distance Internationalist. Autobiographical Project ....................................................................................................... 32 • Marc Zivojinovic (Erfurt, Germany): Der jugoslawische Titokult 1941-1991. Dissertationsprojekt .............................................................................................................. 34 • "Geschichte des Kommunismus" – Ein Forschungsprojekt am Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (Gerd Koenen) ........................................................................................ 37 • Announcement: Establishment of a Young Scholars’ Network on the „History of Societies and Socialisms“ ..................................................................................................................... 38 The International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online XV (2009), no 22 4 IV. Materials and Studies. IV.1 Biographical Materials and Studies. • Peter Huber (Basel, Switzerland): Die Schweizer Spanien-Freiwilligen. Ein soziobiografischer Querschnitt .............................................................................................. 40 • Martin Krämer Liehn (Warsaw, Poland): Revolutionising Letter-Writing, 1917-1956: Nin, Gramsci, Serge, Sneevliet, Michalec, Rosmer, Katz (Abstract) ............................................ 47 • Sandra Pujals (Río Piedras, Puerto Rico) / Katya Vladimirov (Kennesaw, US): Lenin’s Muchachos. A Database of Comintern and Front Organizations’ Personnel in Latin America, 1919-1943 ............................................................................................................................. 48 IV.2 Regional Materials and Studies. • Hernán Camarero (Buenos Aires, Argentina): Algunas reflexiones sobre la inserción del comunismo en el movimiento obrero de la Argentina durante el período de entreguerras .. 60 • Lev Centrih (Ljubljana, Slovenia): The Journal Perspektive and Socialist Self-Management in Slovenia: In Search of a New Anti-Stalinist Society. Towards a Materialist Survey of Communist Ideology ............................................................................................................. 69 • Mariana Hausleitner (Berlin, Germany): Wahrnehmung und Folgen der ungarischen Revolution von 1956 in Rumänien ........................................................................................ 92 • Bruno Kamiński (Łódź, Poland): The Trial of Laszlo Rajk as a Prelude to the Propaganda Onslaught on Tito on the Basis of "Trybuna Ludów" and Local Press Accounts ................ 107 • Dainis Karepovs (São Paulo, Brazil): A Juventude Comunista do Brasil na era da Internacional Comunista ..................................................................................................... 117 • Viktor L. Kheifets / Lazar Kheifets (St. Petersburg, Russia): Die Komintern und Argentinien in den Jahren 1919-1922. Die Kommunistische