VOL. XVIII (2012), NO 25. Edited by Bernhard H. Bayerlein and Gleb J. Albert Published by The European Workshop of Communist Studies With support of The Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam ISSN Y503-1060 ISSN 1862-698X (for the Online Edition) JHK 2012.indb 405 14.02.12 11:47 406 JHK 2012 International Newsletter of Communist Studies Executive Editor Bernhard H. Bayerlein, Potsdam/Cologne [email protected] Junior Editor Gleb J. Albert, Bielefeld [email protected] Editorial Board/Correspondents Aldo Agosti (Torino) Barry McLoughlin (Vienna) Lars Björlin (Stockholm) Kevin Morgan (Manchester) Lev Centrih (Ljubljana) Manfred Mugrauer (Wien) Cosroe Chaqueri (Paris) Timur Mukhamatulin (Moscow) Sonia Combe (Paris) Jorge Nóvoa (Salvador, Bahia) Putnik Dajic (Belgrade) Alexander Pantsov (Columbus, Ohio) Mathieu Denis (Montréal) José Pacheco Pereira (Lisbon-Brussels) Gérard Donzé (La Chaux-de-Fonds) Aleksandr Reznik (St. Petersburg) Jean-François Fayet (Geneva) Tauno Saarela (Helsinki) Jan Foitzik (Berlin) Wolfgang Schlott (Bremen) José Gotovitch (Bruxelles) Daniela Spenser (México DF) Sobhanlal Datta Gupta (Calcutta) Dubravka Stajic (Belgrade) Gabriella Hauch (Linz) Brigitte Studer (Berne) John Haynes (Washington) Frantisek Svátek (Prague) Victor Heifets (St. Petersburg) Jérémie Tamiatto (Paris) Gerd-Rainer Horn (Coventry) Carola Tischler (Berlin) Peter Huber (Geneva) Reiner Tosstorff (Frankfurt am Main) Jesper Jørgensen (Copenhagen) Feliks Tych (Warsaw) Kostis Karpozilos (Athens) Berthold Unfried (Vienna) Fritz Keller (Vienna) Raquel Varela (Lisbon) Klaus Kinner (Leipzig) Zdenek Vasicek (Prague) Todor Kuljic (Belgrade) Aleksandr Vatlin (Moscow) Norman LaPorte (Pontypridd) Gerrit Voerman (Groningen) Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam) Marc Vuilleumier (Genève) Aurelio Martin Najera (Madrid) Frank Wolff (Bielefeld) Kevin McDermott (Sheffield) Rolf Wörsdörfer (Darmstadt) Advisory Board: Prof. Dr. Marjan Britovsek †, Ljubljana; Prof. Dr. Pierre Broué †, Grenoble; Dr. Jürgen Danyel, Potsdam; 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. André Lasserre, Lausanne; Prof. Dr. Avgust Lesnik, Ljubljana; Prof. Dr. Thomas Lindenberger, 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, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF), Am Neuen Markt 9d, 14467 Potsdam, 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://newsletter.icsap.eu Communist Studies Newsletter/Mailinglist: https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/communist-studies-newsletter JHK 2012.indb 406 14.02.12 11:48 Vol. XVIII (2012), No 25. JHK 2012 407 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. The Newsletter of the Newsletters: Communist Studies Newsletters and Web Services – New Issues. Selected Items • H-HOAC • Aktuelles aus der DDR-Forschung • ICCEES Newsletter • NewsNet • Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft Mitteilungen • Mitteilungen des FABGAB II. News on Archives, Holdings and Institutions • Gulag Boss: Discussing the Memoirs of a Gulag Commander • Pravda über DFG-Nationallizenz verfügbar • Washington D.C.: ECNU – Wilson Center Cold War Studies Initiative • Egypt: State Security Archives May Be Opened • Washington D.C.: FBI Releases SOLO File • Riazanov Library Project: US Radical Left Periodicals Digitised • Marxists Internet Archives: Recent Additions on British Communism • Bloomington, IN: Polish Workers’ Movement Collection at Indiana University • Vologda, Russia: Regional Communist Newspaper Digitised • Lev Centrih, Ljubljana: Digitising Sources for the History of the Communist Movement in Slovenia III. Research Projects and Dissertations – Work in Progress • Maurice Andreu (Paris, France): N. I. Boukharine sur les intellectuels et le communisme. Projet en cours. • Álvaro Cúria (Porto, Portugal): Heirs of the Wall. The Events of 1989–91 and the Continuity of the Southwest European Communist Parties. PhD Project. • Leo Goretti (Reading, UK): Young Partisans and »Ragazzi con la maglietta a strisce«. Commu- nist Youth in Italy between the Resistance and July 1960. A Gender and Generational Study. PhD Project. • David Mayer (Vienna, Austria): Tropics Defiant – Clio Militant. On Marxist Historiographic Debates in Latin America in the »Long 1960s« in Transnational Perspective. PhD Project. • Claudia Monteiro (Paraná, Brazil): A Study of Communism in Paraná (1945–1964). Militancy Between Reason and Feelings. PhD Project. • Jonathan Waterlow (Oxford, UK): Popular Humour in Stalin’s 1930s. A Study of Popular Opinion and Adaptation. PhD Project. IV. Materials and Studies JHK 2012.indb 407 14.02.12 11:48 408 JHK 2012 International Newsletter of Communist Studies V. New Publications – Reports, Presentations and Reviews V.1 Reviews V.2 Presentations and Announcements • John Riddell (ed.): Toward the United Front. Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International 1922, Leiden, Brill, 2011. 1310 p. (Historical Materialism Book Series. 34). ISBN 978-9-00420-778-3. • Fridrich I. Firsov: Sekrety Kommunističeskogo Internacionala. Šifroperepiska [Secrets of the Communist International. Coded Correspondence], Moskva, ROSSPĖN, 2011. 519 p. (Istorija stalinizma). ISBN 978-5-8243-1461-8. • Ralf Hoffrogge: Sozialismus und Arbeiterbewegung in Deutschland. Von den Anfängen bis 1914, Stuttgart, Schmetterling, 2011. 216 p. (Reihe theorie.org). ISBN 978-3-89657-655-2. • Richard Müller: Eine Geschichte der Novemberrevolution. Vom Kaiserreich zur Republik. Die Novemberrevolution. Der Bürgerkrieg in Deutschland, Berlin, Die Buchmacherei, 2011. 756 p. ISBN 978-3-00-035400-7. • David North: Verteidigung Leo Trotzkis, Essen, Mehring-Verlag, 2010. 259 p. ISBN 978-3-88634-085-9. • David Fernbach (ed.): In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg. Selected Writings of Paul Levi, Leiden, Brill, 2011. VI, 349 p. (Historical Materialism Book Series. 31). ISBN 978-90-04-19607-0. • Raquel Varela: A História do PCP na Revolução dos cravos, Lisboa, Bertrand, 2011. 399 p. ISBN 978-972-252295-3. V.3 Books Sent in for Review VI. Meetings and Conferences Concerning Communist Studies 2011–2012 VI.1 Conference List • Past meetings and conferences 2011 • Meetings and conferences 2012 VI.2 Conference Reports and Announcements • Historical Materialism Conference 2011: Panels on the History of Communism • Conference on the »Praxis School«: Materials Online VII. The International Bibliography of Communist Studies. Issue 2011 VIII. Periodicals/Serials on Communist Studies VIII.1 The International Bibliography of Journal Articles on Communist Studies. Issue 2011 VIII.2 Directory of Periodicals on Communist Studies and Connected Areas: Conventional and Online Journals, Newsletters, Discussion Lists, Bulletins and Services IX. Internet Resources. Websites Relevant for Communist Studies JHK 2012.indb 408 14.02.12 11:48 Vol. XVIII (2012), No 25. JHK 2012 409 X. Communism in Culture, Art and Media • Some Exhibitions on the History of Communism, 2011–2012 • Moskau: Konferenz über Mežrabpom-Fil’m • Opening of the Museo Memorial de la Resistencia Dominicana, Santo Domingo • Hotel Lux: Das sowjetische KPD-Exil im Spielfilm XI. Discussions, Debates, Historical Controversies • Ottokar Luban (Berlin, Germany): Rosa Luxemburgs Tod JHK 2012.indb 409 14.02.12 11:48 410 JHK 2012 International Newsletter of Communist Studies SECTION I THE NEWSLETTER OF THE NEWSLETTERS: COMMUNIST STUDIES NEWSLETTERS AND WEB SERVICES – NEW ISSUES. SELECTED ITEMS H-NET Discussion Network: H-HOAC. History of American Communism, Washington DC, US. » www.h-net.org/~hoac/ This network provides a forum for scholars, serious students and all who want to participate in a scholarly dis- cussion of the history of American communism and domestic anticommunism encompassing the history of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA), groups that split from the CPUSA, and competing radical movements. Aktuelles aus der DDR-Forschung. Ein Newsletter der Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED- Diktatur, Berlin, Germany. Redaktion: Ulrich Mählert. » www.stiftung-aufarbeitung.de/service_wegweiser/ddr_newsletter.php Die Newsletter sind Mitteilungen zum Stand der aktuellen DDR-Forschung und erscheinen seit 1994 dreimal jährlich in der Zeitschrift Deutschland Archiv. Redaktion: Dr. Ulrich Mählert. Die in den bisherigen News- lettern angegebenen Projektmeldungen verzeichnen zum Erscheinungszeitpunkt geplante, laufende und ab- geschlossene Projekte. Newsletter und Projektmeldungen können aus dem Internet heruntergeladen werden. International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) Newsletter, Münster, Germany. » www.iccees.org/newsletter.html The newsletter features news on current developments, events and publications in the field of Central and East European Studies. Two issues (N° 67/January and N° 68/July) have been released in 2011. Each issue features the following rubrics: From the Executive Committee • Forthcoming Conferences • Publications •Fellowships, Prizes and Grants • Miscellaneous. NewsNet. News of the American Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Phila- delphia, USA. » www.aseees.org/publications/newsnetmain.html NewsNet, a newsmagazine of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian