We are happy to present you with issue no. 27/28 of the International Newsletter of Communist Studies (INCS). Due to an unforeseeable workload related to other projects and technical problems with our old website, this is a double issue, covering the years 2014 and 2015. We apologise to our authors for the massive delay and hope you will enjoy this issue and continue to cooperate with us.
With the help of the Institute for Social Movements and the University Library of the Ruhr University Bochum, the International Newsletter has restarted to gain momentum. We can present this issue on our new website, based on the much more sophisticated and comfortable open-source “Open Journal Systems” publishing platform. Thanks to this, all contributions are accessible individually, as it has been a long wish of our contributors (while we alternatively still provide a single-PDF version of the issue). Also, it is now possible to browse all contributions by a single author. Please feel free to explore our new website at:
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The website already features all back issues until 2010. Older issues will be added in the following months. Moreover, some of the Newsletter sections, such as the list of relevant websites and the list of periodicals, will be transferred permanently onto our website so that they can be updated more often and be more accessible for Internet users.
The current issue features 342 pages full of news on the recent development of communist studies and archives, project reports, an unprecedented amount of 17 reviews, review essays on Ernst Thälmann and GDR history, studies on female fighters in CivilWar Spain and left communist files in the FSB archives, and the bibliography for the years 2013–2014, listing 975 book publications and 1204 journal articles. The International Newsletter is still and by far the most complete bibliographical reference for new publications in the field of global communist studies. Nevertheless, we still need to ensure better coverage of new publications from some parts of the world, particularly from Asia and Africa.
We are glad to present you with another Newsletter issue in the 23rd year after its foundation, as an independent and unsalaried project. Since the very beginning, the Newsletter has aimed to bridge the gap between archives and research as well as between university-based and independent scholarship. Just as the initial impulse for the first issue of the Newsletter in 1993 was to draw attention to the opening and preservation of communist archives in the East and West, we still aim to champion and document the accessibility of the global archives of communism. Moreover, we continue to regard the opening of the archives as the essential precondition for a new phase of fundamental research in communist studies – a necessary global field of research, aimed at overcoming attempts at re-nationalising history. Paradoxically, while the interest and productivity in this field continues to be high, the degree of academic institutionalisation of Communist Studies remains rather low – a situation that threatens free, independent and fundamental research. Thus it is even more important to stress that in order to deliver a useful research platform, to provide input for achieving coverage of the field on a global scale, and to strive towards a stronger institutionalisation, we depend on the contributions and input of our readers and correspondents.
Issue no. 29 (2016) of the International Newsletter will be published in winter 2016. We are looking forward to receiving any sort of relevant information and contributions from our readers before 31 August, 2016: news on archives and institutions, project presentations, announcements of new publications, bibliographic items from the years 2015–2016, suggestions for book reviews, and proposals for articles on aspects of communist history. For the latter, we would ask you to get in touch as soon as possible, so we can evaluate the proposals and give you enough time to complete your manuscripts.
We hope you will find the new issue of the International Newsletter useful for your research,
All the very best,
The Editors, Bernhard H. Bayerlein and Gleb J. Albert (Bochum-Zürich, 1 June 2016)
PS: We still have a limited stock of printed International Newsletter editions from 1993–1998. Libraries and research institutions are welcome to request copies to be shipped to them free of charge.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial … 7
I. The Newsletter of the Newsletters: Communist Studies Newsletters – New issues/Selected Items
– Aufarbeitung Aktuell … 9
– NewsNet … 9
– Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft Mitteilungen … 11
– Mitteilungen des FABGAB …13
– Neuer Nachrichtenbrief der Gesellschaft für Exilforschung … 14
–La lettre du CArCoB … 14
II. News on Archives, Holdings and Institutions
– Comintern Online Archives Back on Russian Portal – Ukraine Opens KGB Archives – “Each One’s Personal File”: New Memorial Online Project – Monoskop.org Guide to Digitised Avant-garde Magazines – “Latin America and the Comintern” Biographical Encyclopedia Online – “Using Archives & Libraries in the Former Soviet Union”: New Edition Published – “Prozhito”: Over 250 Soviet Diaries Online – Melbourne University Archives: Communist Party Collection Finding Aids – 1914–1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War – 70 Years of Partisan Review Now Online – Archivo Biografico del Movimento Operaio – “Russia’s Great War and Revolution”: New Book Series – Marxist Internet Archive: French Academic Journal Cahiers Léon Trotsky Digitised – Henry Sara’s Lantern Lectures Online – Chronicle of Current Events Digitized by “Memorial” – JahrBuch für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung: Neuer Name, neuer Verlag – Early American Marxism: Proletarian Party of America Internal Bulletin Online – “Krasnaia Tatariia” Newspaper 1924–1953 Online – The Newsletter 1957–1958 Online – Der Arbeiter-Fotograf 1926–1933 digitalisiert – The NEP Era Back Issues Online … 16 – Holger Politt: Zu den nachgelassenen Arbeiten von Feliks Tych (1929–2015) … 22
III. Research Projects and Dissertations – Work in Progress
– Kasper Braskén: The Origins of ‘Anti-Fascism’: Transnational Movements against Nazism, Fascism and the ‘White Terror’ in Europe, 1923–1940 … 24
– Daniel F. Gaido: The Fourth International and the Postwar Trotskyist Tendencies: A World History of the Trotskyist Movement … 26
– Marcel Bois: Küche, Karriere und Kommunismus. Das Jahrhundertleben der Architektin Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000). Forschungsprojekt … 28
– Erich Keller: Pinkus. Biografische Ressourcen und linkes Wissen. Ein zwei-generationales Biografie-Projekt … 35
IV. Studies and Materials
– Avgust Lešnik, Ksenija Vidmar Horvat: The Spanish Female Volunteers from Yugoslavia as Example of Solidarity in a Transnational Context … 37
– Barbara C. Allen: Files on the Workers’ Opposition in the Central Archive of the Federal Security Service of Russia … 52
V. New Publications – Reports, Presentations and Reviews
V.1: Review Essays
– Norman LaPorte: Ernst Thälmann. Man and Myth in New Literature … 58
– Frank Wolff: Zwischen Beharrungskraft und Umbruch. Zwei gegensätzliche Blicke auf die Geschichte der DDR … 73
V.2: Reviews
– David Featherstone: Solidarity. Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism (Kasper Braskén) [review in English] … 78
– Cosroe Chaqueri (ed.): The Left in Iran. I: 1905–1940; II: 1941–1957 (Ramin Taghian) [review in English] … 81
– Wolf-Dietrich Gutjahr: Revolution muss sein. Karl Radek – die Biographie (Jean-François Fayet) [review in French] … 85
– Christian Twardowski: Weiblichkeit unter der Gewalt des bayerischen Sowjets. Verstöße gegen die Sittlichkeit als Mittel der Stigmatisierung der Linksextremen im Bayern des Frühjahrs 1919 (Mark Jones) [review in English] … 88
– Kevin Morgan: Bolshevism, Syndicalism, and the General Strike. The Lost International World of A.A. Purcell (Emmet O’Connor) [review in English] … 91
– Laura Branciforte: El Socorro Rojo Internacional (1923–1939). Relatos de la solidaridad antifascista (Reiner Tosstorff) [review in German] … 94
– Malte Griesse: Communiquer, juger et agir sous Staline. La personne prise entre ses liens avec les proches et son rapport au système politico-idéologique (Brigitte Studer) [review in German] … 97
– Marcel Bois: Kommunisten gegen Hitler und Stalin. Die linke Opposition der KPD in der Weimarer Republik. Eine Gesamtdarstellung (Klaus J. Becker) [review in German] … 100
– Andreas Peglau: Unpolitische Wissenschaft? Wilhelm Reich und die Psychoanalyse im Nationalsozialismus. Mit einem Vorwort von Helmut Dahmer und einem ausführlichen Dokumentenanhang (Jairus Banaji) [review in English] … 104
– Hans Coppi, Sabine Kebir: Ilse Stöbe. Wieder im Amt. Eine Widerstandskämpferin in der Wilhelmstrasse. Mit einem Vorwort von Juliane Bussemer und Wolfgang Gehrcke (Mario Keßler) [review in English] … 108
– Reinhard Hesse (ed.): „Ich schrieb mich selbst auf Schindlers Liste“. Die Geschichte von Hilde und Rose Berger. Mit einem Geleitwort von Berthold Beitz (Marcel Bois) [review in German] … 110
– Felipe Nieto: La aventura comunista de Jorge Semprún. Exilio, clandestinidad y ruptura (Reiner Tosstorff) [review in German] … 114
– Liesbeth van de Grift: Securing the Communist State. The Reconstruction of Coercive Institutions in the Soviet Zone of Germany and Romania, 1944–1948 (Jan Foitzik) [review in German] … 121
– Jack M. Bloom: Seeing through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution. Solidarity and the Struggle Against Communism in Poland / Ireneusz Krzemiński: Solidarność. Niespełniony projekt polskiej demokracji (Wolfgang Schlott) [review in German] … 124
– Hans-Albert Hoffmann, Siegfried Stoof: Sowjetische Truppen in Deutschland und ihr Hauptquartier in Wünsdorf 1945–1994. Geschichte, Fakten, Hintergründe (Jan Foitzik) [review in German] … 127
– Philippe Kellermann (ed.): Begegnungen feindlicher Brüder. Zum Verhältnis von Anarchismus und Marxismus in der Geschichte der sozialistischen Bewegung. Vol. 1 & 2 (Vadim Damier) [review in German] … 131
– Todor Kuljić: Tranzicija uma. Sociološki ogledi o promeni opredeljenja humanističke inteligencije u Srbiji (Avgust Lešnik) [review in English] … 136
V.3: Presentations and Announcements … 138
VI. Meetings and Conferences Concerning Communist Studies 2012–2014 … 150
– Buenos Aires, 2015: First Meeting on the History of the Worker’s Movement and the Left
– The International Echoes of the Commemorations of the October Revolution (1918–1990)
– Forthcoming: The Publication of the Proceedings of the First International Willi-Münzenberg Congress – Global Spaces for Radical Solidarity/ Globale Räume für radikale Solidarität – Erster Internationaler Willi-Münzenberg-Kongress, Berlin, 17. September 2015, Franz Mehring Platz 1, September 17–20, 2015.
VII. The International Bibliography of Communist Studies. Issue 2013/14. Books and Journal Articles on Communism
VII.1: Books on Communism, 2013–2014 … 156
VII.2: Journal Articles on Communism, 2013–2014 … 207
VIII. Periodicals/ Serials on Communist Studies
VIII.1: Directory of Periodicals on Communist Studies and Connected Areas … 310
VIII.2: Announcements and Calls for Articles … 324
IX. Internet Resources. Websites Relevant for Communist Studies … 326
X. Communism in Culture, Art and Media … 327
– Some Exhibitions on the History of Communism, 2013–2015
– “The Most Dangerous Man in the World”: Unfinished Trotsky Documentary Needs Funding
– “Between Utopia and Counterrevolution”: Documentary About Werner Scholem
– Princess of Asturias Award for Leonardo Padura
– SRF-Dokumentation über Fritz Platten
– “Red Rosa”: New Graphic Novel About Rosa Luxemburg
XI. Discussions, Debates, Historical Controversies
– Controversy Around the Lukács Archives … 330
XII. Miscellanea … 331
– Wissenschaftspreise der Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Sachsen 2015 und 2016
In memoriam:
– Hermann Weber (1928–2014)
– Jakov Samojlovič Drabkin (1918–2015)
– Cosroe Chaqueri (Khosrow Shakeri Zand) (1938–2015) – Andreas G. Graf (1952–2013)
– Robert Conquest (1917–2015)
– Sergei Viktorovich Iarov (1959–2015) – Andrei Konstantinovich Sokolov (1941–2015)
– Erwin Jöris (1912–2013)
Authors … 338