Dear authors and readers of the International Newsletter of Communist Studies, dear friends and colleagues,
After a long delay, we can finally present you the International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online XIX (2013), no. 26. We are sorry that it took us so long to release it. The delay was due to urgent research commitments and new institutional alignments of both editors – while Gleb Albert just completed his PhD dissertation on early Soviet internationalism at Bielefeld University, Bernhard H. Bayerlein assumed a new position at the Institute of Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum, coordinating an international research project on Willi Münzenberg, “Die Zukunft” and the “Union Franco-Allemande” (see the presentation in the current issue).
The new issue can be downloaded at <http://newsletter.icsap.de/home/data/pdf/INCS_26_ONLINE.pdf>. Thanks to our authors and contributors, once again the International Newsletter with more than 300 pages is able to offer a wide range of news, information, studies and materials on the history of communism. You can find the table of contents at the bottom of this mail. Furthermore, the new issue features the International Bibliography of Communist Studies, issue 2012, covering over 500 books and over 1000 journal articles. This was possible thanks to our correspondents sustaining this huge undertaking, as well as our intern, Véronique Mickisch, who did a tremendous work researching titles for the bibliography. However, new correspondents are very welcome to contribute publication titles from countries that are not yet well-covered, as well as new information items and materials. Since the International Newsletter is something that both editors have to maintain in their spare time, contributions from and contacts with correspondents, authors and readers are absolutely crucial.
An increasing number of readers during the past few years have suggested that the International Newsletter should move away from its present publication form as a one-file PDF document towards something that corresponds with modern technical standards of open access online journal publishing. We are glad to announce that in the next months we will be working on implementing a new online publishing system that would allow readers to access and link to the Newsletter’s single contributions. Hopefully, the new system will be ready to use for the forthcoming 2014 issue.
While the issue we are proud to present to you today is the 2013 Online issue, there will be, of course, a 2014 issue that will come out in autumn. The print edition was already published a few months ago as a supplement for the new volume of the Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung, which can be obtained at <https://www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/jhk-2014-4549.html>. While we already have a number of promising contributions for this year’s forthcoming online issue, we highly welcome new project presentations and concise article publications to include. The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2014. Please get in touch with us well before the date if you plan an article contribution. Furthermore, the same deadline applies for information contributions for the INCS print edition for 2015, where we welcome short project presentations (up to one page) as well as information on archives, upcoming conferences, new research and online projects, expositions, movies and cultural events and so on.
For 2015, we plan to organise an event to assemble the International Newsletter’s editorial board, correspondents and authors and to facilitate exchange between them in order to discuss their ongoing research as well as new ways of how the Newsletter can continue to stay at the forefront of Communist Studies for the years to come. The time and date for this meeting is still under discussion, and so is the question of funding. For the latter, we welcome any ideas about possible institutional support.
Kind regards and good luck with your ongoing research,
Bernhard H. Bayerlein, Executive Editor Gleb J. Albert, Junior Editor
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. The Newsletter of the Newsletters: Communist Studies Newsletters – New issues/ Selected Items 2012
– Aufarbeitung Aktuell – NewsNet – Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft Mitteilungen – Mitteilungen des FABGAB – Neuer Nachrichtenbrief der Gesellschaft für Exilforschung … 8
II. News on Archives, Holdings and Institutions
– Stalin and Politburo Fonds Online – L’Ordine Nuovo Digitized – New Issue of Stalin’s Shooting Lists CD – “Dissertation Reviews” Website – New Dan Goulooze Papers at the IISH – “The Spanish Revolution” P.O.U.M. Bulletin Online – PSA Communism Specialist Group Formed – Proletarian Party of America Internal Bulletin Online – Recent Articles by Lars T. Lih – Online-Bildatlas „Kunst in der DDR“ … 11
– Freddy Litten (Munich): New Microforms from Ukraine and Russia at the Bavarian State Library in Munich … 14
III. Research Projects and Dissertations – Work in Progress
– David Broder (London): Bandiera Rossa, Communism and the Working Class during the German Occupation of Rome, 1943-44. PhD Project … 15
– Serhiy Hirik (Kyiv): The Ideology of the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries (Borotbists) / The Ukrainian Communist Party (Borotbists), 1918-1920. PhD Project … 17
– Jonathan Waterlow (Oxford): The Soviet ‘Nuremberg’: Forging the Postwar World Beyond the Iron Curtain, 1945-1953’. Research Project … 19
– Florian Wilde (Hamburg): Ernst Meyer (1887-1930). Vergessene Führungsfigur des deutschen Kommunismus. Eine politische Biographie. Dissertation … 20
– Jesper Jørgensen (Copenhagen): Danish-Russian Archive Project: The Danish Personal Files in the Comintern Archives … 21
– The Alexander Bogdanov Library … 23
– Das Willi-Münzenberg-Forum und der Internationale Willi-Münzenberg-Kongress … 26
– Aurélie Audeval, Bernhard H. Bayerlein, Christian Oppetit (Paris/Bochum): Avant la seconde guerre mondiale, le rêve de la chute de Hitler – Le « Zukunft », Paris (1938-1940), Organe de l'Union Franco-allemande. Projet européen d'Archives et de Recherche / Der Traum von Hitlers Sturz – noch vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: „Die Zukunft“, Paris (1938-1940), Organ der Deutsch-Französischen Union. Ein europäisches Archiv- und Forschungsprojekt … 28
– PAPRIK@2F. Internet Portal: Political Archives Research Indexation Komintern and French Archives … 38
– Dissertations Reviewed at “Dissertation Reviews” … 40
IV. Studies and Materials
– Barbara C. Allen (Philadelphia): Former Worker Oppositionists’ Personal and Personnel Files in the Russian State Archive of the Economy, 1918-1929 … 42
– Iain Lauchlan (Edinburgh): Feliks before the Fall. A Biographical Approach to Understanding Stalinism … 48
– Sebastián J. Rodríguez, Andrés Iván Gurbanov (Buenos Aires): El “Caso Real” a la luz de la relación entre Comunismo y Peronismo … 62
– Daniel Kersffeld (Mexico): Bolcheviques en Ecuador: Un abordaje en torno a los orígenes del Partido Comunista Ecuatoriano … 73
– Ivajlo Znepolski (Sofia): En lisant le journal de Georgi Dimitrov : Dimitrov et Staline. La « démocratie populaire » et le projet totalitaire … 83
V. New Publications – Reports, Presentations and Reviews
V.1: Review Essays
– Lars T. Lih (Montreal): Campaignism: An Essential Theme in the History of the Left … 95
– Endre Kiss (Budapest): „…ein ziemlich bewegtes Leben.” Georg Lukács: Autobiographische Texte und Gespräche … 104
– Bernhard H. Bayerlein (Bochum): Ein Jahrhundertleben für ein gerechtes, brüderliches Europa: Jorge Semprún … 111
V.2: Reviews
– Peter Kuckuk (ed.): Die Revolution 1918/19 in Bremen. Aufsätze und Dokumente [The Revolution of 1918/19 in Bremen. Essays and Documents], Bremen, Edition Temmen, 2010. 230 pp. (Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte Bremens. 27). – ISBN 978-3837810011 / Gerhard Engel: Johann Knief. Ein unvollendetes Leben [Johann Knief. An Incomplete Life], Berlin, Karl Dietz Verlag, 2011. 455 pp. (Geschichte des Kommunismus und Linkssozialismus. 15). – ISBN 978-3320022495. (Ottokar Luban, Berlin) … 118
– Oleg Budnitskii: Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920. Translated by Timothy J. Portice, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 544 pp. – ISBN 978-0812243642 (Frank Wolff, Osnabrück) … 125
– Paul Frölich: Autobiographie 1890-1921. Parcours d’un militant internationaliste allemand. De la social-démocratie au parti communiste. Traduit de l’allemand par Jacqueline Bois, Montreuil-sous-Bois, Éditions Science Marxiste, 2011. 257 pp. – ISBN 978-2912639493 / Hilde Kramer: Rebellin in München, Moskau und Berlin. Autobiographisches Fragment 1900-1924. Herausgegeben von Egon Günther unter Mitarbeit von Thies Marsen, Berlin, BasisDruck Verlag Berlin, 2011. 259 pp. (Pamphlete. 27). – ISBN 978-3861631446 (Ottokar Luban, Berlin) … 128
– Igal Halfin: Red Autobiographies. Initiating The Bolshevik Self. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 2011. 197 pp. (Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia). – ISBN 978-0295991122 (Klaus-Georg Riegel, Trier) … 132
– Michael Brie, Frigga Haug (eds.): Zwischen Klassenstaat und Selbstbefreiung. Zum Staatsverständnis von Rosa Luxemburg [Between Class State and Self-Emancipation. Rosa Luxemburg’s Concept of the State], Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2011. 242 pp. (Staatsverständnisse. 43). – ISBN 978-3832941482 (Fritz Weber, Vienna) … 138
– Johannes Fülberth: „…wird mit Brachialgewalt durchgefochten“. Bewaffnete Konflikte mit Todesfolge vor Gericht. Berlin 1929 bis 1932/1933 [„…Fought with Brutal Force“. Armed Conflicts with Fatal Consequences on Trial, Berlin 1929 to 1932/33], Köln. PapyRossa, 2011. 154 pp. (PapyRossa-Hochschulschriften. 87). – ISBN 978-3894384623 (Torben Möbius, Bielefeld) … 141
– Hans Coppi, Stefan Heinz (eds.): Der vergessene Widerstand der Arbeiter. Gewerkschafter, Kommunisten, Sozialdemokraten, Trotzkisten, Anarchisten und Zwangsarbeiter [The Forgotten Workers’ Resistance. Trade Unionists, Communists, Social Democrats, Trotskyists, Anarchists, and Forced Labourers], Berlin, Karl Dietz Verlag, 2012. 383 pp. (Geschichte des Kommunismus und Linkssozialismus. 16). – ISBN 978-3320022648 (Marcel Bois, Berlin) … 145
– Sergei Kropachev: Von der Lüge zur Aufklärung. Verluste durch „Großen Terror“ und Krieg in der sowjetischen und russischen Historiografie [From Lie to Clarification. Causalities of „Great Terror“ and War in Soviet and Russian Historiography]. Aus dem Russischen von Vera Ammer, Berlin, Metropol Verlag, 2011. 207 pp. (ZeitgeschichteN. 8). – ISBN 978-3863310561 (Jan Foitzik, Berlin) … 149
– Frédérick Genevée: La fin du secret. Histoire des archives du Parti communiste français [The End of the Secret. The History of the Archives of the French Communist Party], Paris, Editions de l’Atelier, 2012. 176 pp. – ISBN 978-2708241909 (Romain Ducoulombier, Paris) … 150
– Nicholas John Williams: Das Gedächtnis Kubas. Die Revolution im Interview [Cuba’s Memory. The Revolution Interviewed], Marburg, Tectum-Verlag, 2011. 304 pp. – ISBN 978-3828826632 (Jens Hildebrandt, Mannheim) … 152
V.3: Presentations and Announcements.
– Dreibändige Edition “Deutschland – Russland – Komintern” … 155
– S. A. Smith (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism, Oxford e.a., Oxford University Press, 2014. 672 pp. (Oxford Handbooks in History). – ISBN 978-0199602056 … 156
– Carlos Nelson Coutinho: Gramsci’s Political Thought, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2012. XVI, 198 pp. (Historical Materialism Book Series. 38). – ISBN 978-9004228665 … 158
– Walter Thys (ed.): Vom Wandervogel zum „Compañero“. Jan Andries Jolles. 1906-1942. Soldat der Weltrevolution. Dokumente zu einer Biographie [From “Wandervogel” to “Compañero“. Jan Andries Jolles, 1906-1942. Soldier of World Revolution. Materials for a Biography], Leipzig, Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, 2012. 393 pp. – ISBN 978-3865835314 … 158
– Jacob A. Zumoff: The Communist International and US Communism. 1919-1929, Leiden, Brill, 2014. Approx. 400 pp. (Historical Materialism Book Series. 82). – ISBN 978-9004219601 … 159
– Kevin Morgan: Bolshevism, Syndicalism and the General Strike. The Lost Internationalist World of A.A. Purcell, London, Lawrence & Wishart, 2013. 480 pp. (Bolshevism and the British Left. 3). – ISBN 978-1907103544 … 159
– Andreas Petersen: Deine Schnauze wird dir in Sibirien zufrieren. Ein Jahrhundertdiktat. Erwin Jöris [Your Gob Will Freeze in Siberia! The Dictation of a Century. Erwin Jöris], Wiesbaden, marixverlag, 2012. 520 pp. – ISBN 978-3865392848 … 160
– John Eric Marot: The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect. Interventions in Russian and Soviet History, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2012. X, 273 pp. (Historical Materialism Book Series. 37). – ISBN 978-9004228658 … 160
– Ludmila Thomas: Georgi Tschitscherin. „Ich hatte die Revolution und Mozart“ [Georgii Chicherin. “I Had the Revolution and Mozart”], Berlin, Karl Dietz Verlag, 2012. 287 pp. – ISBN 978-3320022754 … 161
– Gertrud Lenz: Gertrud Meyer. Ein politisches Leben im Schatten Willy Brandts. 1914-2002 [Gertrud Meyer. A Political Life in the Shadows of Willy Brandt, 1914-2002], Paderborn, Schöningh, 2013. 252 pp. – ISBN 978-3506775696 … 161
– David King: Russische revolutionäre Plakate. Bürgerkrieg und bolschewistische Periode, sozialistischer Realismus und Stalin-Ära [Russian Revolutionary Posters. Civil War and Bolshevik Period, Socialist Realism and Stalin Era]. Übersetzt von Peter Sondershausen, Essen, Mehring, 2012. 144 pp. – ISBN 978-3886340989 … 161
– Wolfgang Hesse (ed.): Die Eroberung der beobachtenden Maschinen. Zur Arbeiterfotografie der Weimarer Republik [The Conquest of the Observing Machines. Workers’ Photography in the Weimar Republic], Leipzig, Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, 2012. 491 pp. (Schriften zur sächsischen Geschichte und Volkskunde. 37). – ISBN 978-3865836168 … 162
– Doris Danzer: Zwischen Vertrauen und Verrat. Deutschsprachige kommunistische Intellektuelle und ihre sozialen Beziehungen. 1918-1960 [Between Trust and Treason. German-language Communist Intellectuals and Their Social Relations. 1918-1960], Göttingen, V&R Unipress, 2012. 576 pp. (Freunde – Gönner – Getreue. 5). – ISBN 978-3899719390 … 162
– Mario Kessler: Ruth Fischer. Ein Leben mit und gegen Kommunisten. 1895-1961 [Ruth Fischer. A Life With and Against Communists, 1895-1961], Köln e.a., Böhlau, 2013. 750 pp. (Zeithistorische Studien. 51). – ISBN 978-3412210144 … 163
– Karl Steinhardt: Lebenserinnerungen eines Wiener Arbeiters [Memoirs of a Viennese Worker], hg. und eingeleitet von Manfred Mugrauer, Wien, Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft, 2013. 320 pp. (Biografische Texte zur Geschichte der österreichischen Arbeiterbewegung. 7). – ISBN 978-3950313727 … 163
– Fredrik Petersson: Willi Münzenberg, the League against Imperialism, and the Comintern, 1925-1933, Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press/Queenston Press, 2013. 1152 pp. – ISBN 978-0773442986 … 164
– Wolfgang Hesse: Körper und Zeichen. Arbeiterfotografien aus Dohna, Heidenau und Johanngeorgenstadt 1932/33, Dresden, Thelem 2013. 269 pp. (Bausteine aus dem Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde. 24). – ISBN 978-3942411707 … 165
– Frederick C. Corney (ed.): Trotsky's Challenge. The 'Literary Discussion' of 1924 and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution, Leiden e.a., Brill, 2014. Approx. 500 pp. (Historical Materialism Book Series) … 165
– Andreas Peglau: Unpolitische Wissenschaft? Wilhelm Reich und die Psychoanalyse im Nationalsozialismus [Unpolitical Science? Wilhelm Reich and Psychoanalysis during National Socialism], Gießen, Psychosozial-Verlag, 2013. 635 pp. – ISBN 978-3837920970 … 166
– Todor Kuljić: Anatomija desnice. Izbor iz publicističkih radova 1978–2013 [The Anatomy of the Right: Selected Newspaper Columns, Book Reviews and Interviews 1978-2013], Beograd, Čigoja štampa, 2013. 286 p. – ISBN 978-8653100094 … 166
V.4: Books Sent in for Review … 167
VI. Meetings and Conferences Concerning Communist Studies 2012–2014
VI.1: Conference List
– Past Meetings and Conferences 2012 … 169
– Meetings and Conferences 2013-2014 … 173
VI.2: Conference Reports and Announcements
– 9th Historical Materialism Conference, 8-11 November 2012, London … 176
– Conference Programme: Workers' Internationalism before 1914 … 177
– Paris: International Rosa Luxemburg Society Conference … 179
– Madrid: Symposium “Europa del Este durante el comunismo: aportaciones desde la historiografía española”, 25-26 October 2012 … 179
– Promotions- und Graduiertenkolleg: Geschichte linker Politik in Deutschland jenseits von Sozialdemokratie und Parteikommunismus … 180
VII. The International Bibliography of Communist Studies. Issue 2012.
VII.1: Books and Journal Articles on Communism … 183
VII.2: Journal Articles on Communism … 217
VIII. Periodicals/ Serials on Communist Studies
VIII.1: Directory of Periodicals on Communist Studies and Connected Areas: Conventional and Online Journals, Newsletters and Bulletins … 304
VIII.2: Announcements and Calls for Papers
– Moving the Social – Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements … 316
– Workers of the World – International Journal of Strikes and Social Conflict … 316
– Archivos de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda … 317
IX. Internet Resources. Websites Relevant for Communist Studies … 319
X. Communism in Culture, Art and Media
– Some Exhibitions on the History of Communism, 2012-2013 … 327
– „Briefe an Trotzki“ – eine szenische Kollage – Erzählung von Egon Erwin Kisch wiederveröffentlicht – „Das Ende der SED“ als Bühnenstück – Neuer Dokumentarfilm zum Volksaufstand vom 17. Juni 1953 … 328
– Andreas Peglau (Berlin): „Der Fall Wilhelm Reich“ (Österreich 2012). Rezension zum Film … 330
XI. Discussions, Debates, Historical Controversies
– Debatte um neues Buch von Jörg Baberowski … 333
XII. Miscellanea
– Historical Materialism Book Series: Selected Works of Amadeo Bordiga. Call for Donations – Wilhelm Reich und Willy Brandt – ein Nachtrag – 13. Wissenschaftspreis der Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Sachsen 2013 – Carlos Nelson Coutinho (1943-2012) – Eric J. Hobsbawm (1917-2012) – Horst Dähn (1941-2012) – Helmut Fleischer (1927-2012) – Anton Vladimirovich Antonov-Ovseenko (1920-2013) … 334
Authors … 338