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THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER OF COMMUNIST STUDIES 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 Edited by Bernhard H. Bayerlein and Gleb J. Albert VOL. XXII/XXIII (2016/2017) NO 29-30 Published by The European Workshop of Communist Studies With Support of the Institute of Social Movements and the Library of the Ruhr University Bochum ISSN 1862-698X http://incs.ub.rub.de The International Newsletter of Communist Studies XXII/XXIII (2016/17), nos. 29-30 2 Executive Editor Bernhard H. Bayerlein Honorary Senior Researcher, Institute of Social Movements (ISB), University of Bochum, Germany Associate, Center of Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF), Germany [email protected] / [email protected] Junior Editor Gleb J. Albert Department of History, University of Zurich [email protected] Assisted by Marcel Bois, Hamburg Board of Correspondents Lars Björlin (Stockholm) Ottokar Luban (Berlin) Kasper Braskén (Åbo) Kevin McDermott (Sheffield) Hernán Camarero (Buenos Aires) Brendan McGeever (London) Cosroe Chaqueri † (Paris) Kevin Morgan (Manchester) Sonia Combe (Paris) Timur Mukhamatulin (New Brunswick) Mathieu Denis (Montréal) Manfred Mugrauer (Wien) Jean-François Fayet (Fribourg) José Pacheco Pereira (Lisbon) Jan Foitzik (Berlin) Fredrik Petersson (Åbo/Stockholm) José Gotovitch (Bruxelles) Adriana Petra (Buenos Aires) Sobhanlal Datta Gupta (Calcutta) Aleksandr Reznik (Basel/St Petersburg) Gabriella Hauch (Linz) Tauno Saarela (Helsinki) John Haynes (Washington) Wolfgang Schlott (Bremen) Victor Heifets (St. Petersburg) Uwe Sonnenberg (Berlin) Serhyi Hiryk (Kyiv) Jérémie Tamiatto (Paris) Gerd-Rainer Horn (Paris) Carola Tischler (Berlin) Jesper Jørgensen (Copenhagen) Reiner Tosstorff (Mainz) Dainis Karepovs (São Paulo) Berthold Unfried (Vienna) Kostis Karpozilos (Athens) Raquel Varela (Lisbon) Fritz Keller (Vienna) Gerrit Voerman (Groningen) Todor Kuljič (Belgrade) Frank Wolff (Osnabrück) Norman LaPorte (Pontypridd) Rolf Wörsdörfer (Darmstadt) Aruã Silva de Lima (Maceió) Advisory Board: Prof. Dr. Aldo Agosti, Torino; Dr. Jürgen Danyel, Potsdam; Prof. Dr. José Faraldo, Madrid; Prof. Dr. Marc Ferro, Paris; Prof. Dr. Dietrich Geyer, Tübingen; Dr. Jens Gieseke, Potsdam; Prof. Dr. Lazar Heifets, St. Petersburg; Prof. Dr. Charles Kecskeméti, Paris; Prof. Dr. Avgust Lešnik, Ljubljana; Prof. Dr. Thomas Lindenberger, Potsdam; Prof. Dr. Richard Lorenz, Kassel; Prof. Dr. Jutta Scherrer, Paris/Berlin; Prof. Dr. Feliks Tych †, Warsaw; Prof. Dr. Marcel van der Linden, Amsterdam; Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hermann Weber †, Mannheim; Prof. Dr. Holger Weiss, Åbo; Prof. Dr. Serge Wolikow, Dijon Founding Members: Dr. Bernhard H. Bayerlein (Aachen/Lausanne); Prof. Dr. Marjan Britovšek † (Ljubljana); Prof. Dr. Pierre Broué † (Grenoble); Dr. Putnik Dajić (Belgrade); Gérard Donzé (La Chaux-de-Fonds); Prof. Dr. Fridrikh Firsov (Boston); Dr. Jan Foitzik (Mannheim); Dr. Peter Huber (Basel); Prof. Dr. Avgust Lešnik (Ljubljana); Aurelio Martin Najera (Madrid), Dr. Jürgen Mothes † (Leipzig); Prof. Dr. Vera Mujbegović (Belgrade); Dr. Aleksandr Pantsov (Moscow), Dr. Dubravka Stajić (Belgrade); Prof. Dr. Brigitte Studer (Berne); Dr. František Svátek (Prague); Prof. Dr. Aleksandr Vatlin (Moscow); Dr. Zdeněk Vašíček † (Prague); Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hermann Weber † (Mannheim) Editorial Address: Dr. Bernhard H. Bayerlein, Institut für Soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Clemensstrasse 17-19, 44789 Bochum, Germany. Phone: 0049 (0)221 42 27 06 E-Mail: [email protected] – [email protected] Homepage: http://incs.ub.rub.de Communist Studies Newsletter/Mailinglist: https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/communist-studies-newsletter The International Newsletter of Communist Studies XXII/XXIII (2016/17), nos. 29-30 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial ................................................................................................................................. 6 I. The Newsletter of the Newsletters: Communist Studies Newsletters – New issues/ Selected Items • Aufarbeitung Aktuell ............................................................................................................. 9 • NewsNet ............................................................................................................................... 9 • Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft Mitteilungen .................................................................................. 9 • Mitteilungen des FABGAB ...................................................................................................12 • Neuer Nachrichtenbrief der Gesellschaft für Exilforschung e.V. ........................................ 14 • IISG Newsletter ……........................................................................................................... 14 II. News on Archives, Holdings and Institutions • Kommunismusgeschichte.de • “Chekists in the Dock” • Digitalisierung des „Vorwärts“ bis 1933 • NKVD Cadres 1935-1939: New Biographical Database • Online-Projekt „Weimar – Die erste deutsche Demokratie“ • New Website: Kommuna • BND-Akten digitalisiert • The Documentary Heritage of the Great Russian Revolution • RIECOM – Ibero-American Network of Studies on Communism • CeDInCI Archival Collection Recognised as Documentary Heritage by UNESCO • Splits&Fusions: An Archive of Trotskyist Publications in Britain • „Historisches Zentrum Demokratischer Sozialismus“ eröffnet • WorkingUSA Journal: New Name • Interview with Irina A. Shliapnikova • Interview with Kirill M. Anderson • Trotzki- Sammlung in der ULB Darmstadt • New CeDInCI Project AMÉRICALEE • Paprik@2F – Portail Archives politiques Recherches Indexation et Fonds Français ................................. 17 • Sonia Combe: Pierre Broué (1926-2005). Les archives d’un universitaire militant ............ 25 III. Research Projects and Dissertations – Work in Progress • Aleksandr Reznik: The Cult of Leon Trotsky in the Political Culture of the Russian Civil War ............................................................................................................................................... 27 • Stephan Rindlisbacher: Territorialising the Soviet State 1918-1936 …............................... 30 • Lucas Federer: Internationalism and Realpolitik Between the Blocs. The Trotskyist Movement in Switzerland during the 1950s and 1960s ……………………........................... 33 IV. Studies and Materials • Barbara C. Allen: Soviet Communist Party Central Control Commission Files for Workers’ Opposition Leaders Aleksandr Shliapnikov and Sergei Medvedev ………………………….. 35 • Bernhard H. Bayerlein: L'histoire enfin retrouvée : L’Internationale Communiste de la tragédie allemande à l'apogée de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale. Une rétrospéctive sur le journal de Dimitrov (1933-1943) ........................................................................................... 40 • Mercedes F. López Cantera: El anticomunismo argentino entre 1930 y 1943. Los orígenes de la construcción de un enemigo ........................................................................................ 71 The International Newsletter of Communist Studies XXII/XXIII (2016/17), nos. 29-30 4 V. New Publications – Review Essays, Reviews and Presentations V.1: Review Essays • Grant Mandarino: New Publications on Eduard Fuchs ....................................................... 81 • Ottokar Luban: Wolfgang Niess: Die Revolution von 1918/19 in der deutschen Geschichtsschreibung. Deutungen von der Weimarer Republik bis ins 21. Jahrhundert ..... 86 V.2: Reviews • John Riddell (ed.): To the Masses. Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921 (Brigitte Studer) [review in English] ………………………...…………...... 95 • Paul Frölich: Im radikalen Lager. Politische Autobiographie 1890-1921 (Gerhard Engel) [review in German] ................................................................................................................ 97 • Olaf Kistenmacher: Arbeit und „jüdisches Kapital“. Antisemitische Aussagen in der KPD- Tageszeitung Die Rote Fahne während der Weimarer Republik (Marcel Bois) [review in German] .............................................................................................................................. 100 • Matthias Neumann: The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union (Carmen Scheide) [review in German] ..................................................................... 106 • Gary Roth: Marxism in a Lost Century. A Biography of Paul Mattick (Michael Buckmiller) [review in German] .............................................................................................................. 108 • Hugo García, Mercedes Yusta, Xavier Tabet, Cristina Clímaco (eds.): Rethinking Antifascism: History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present (Kasper Braskén) [review in English] ............................................................................................................................... 111 • Werner Abel, Enrico Hilbert: „Sie werden nicht durchkommen“. Deutsche an der Seite der Spanischen Republik und der sozialen Revolution, 2 vols. (Ulrich Eumann) [review in German] .............................................................................................................................. 116 • Jan Foitzik (ed.): Sowjetische Kommandanturen und