“Three Generations of Leftist Political Parties in Iran A History of Repression, Foreign Imperialism, and Khomeinist Manipulation” By Ilk Ghavami, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfil... #iran #tudeh #communistparty #sovietunion #ussr #khomeini

“Three Generations of Leftist Political Parties in Iran A History of Repression, Foreign Imperialism, and Khomeinist Manipulation” By Ilk Ghavami, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfil... #iran #tudeh #communistparty #sovietunion #ussr #khomeini

"Die Aufarbeitung der Stalin-Verbrechen ist unter Präsident Wladimir Putin aber weitgehend zum Erliegen gekommen. Als ein Zeichen musste das Moskauer Gulag-Museum, gegründet 2001 und seit 2015 im derzeitigen Gebäude, 2024 wegen angeblicher Brandschutzprobleme schließen."

Recently published (🔆Open Access🔆): Communist Social Policy: Pension Policy in Bulgaria by Maria Ignatova-Pfarr & Carina Schmitt Free access for one week: online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

On Sun 8 March BBC Radio 4 will broadcast The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin - a documentary based on my research! It traces how I uncovered the lost archive of an anti-Nazi resistance organiser in a wind-rattled villa on the Galician coast. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#OtD 17 Feb 1977 communist union leader, Luciano Lama, came to a university occupation in Rome with a few hundred Communist Party "heavies" to evict the students. But the students fought back, smashed their equipment, and chased them off campus stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8875...

I interviewed Adelina Stefan for @peripheralhist.bsky.social about her book on international tourism in communist Romania and Franco's Spain. Take a look here! www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/vacatio...

#OpenAcces “Contradiplomacy and Solidarity: Spanish and East German Communists in the Context of Relations between Francoist Spain and the GDR (1949–1977) By @javihaller.bsky.social sd.usd.cas.cz/pdfs/sod/202... #Spain #EastGermany #antifascism #coldwar #Franco #DDR #communistparty #communism

#OpenAcces “Contradiplomacy and Solidarity: Spanish and East German Communists in the Context of Relations between Francoist Spain and the GDR (1949–1977) By @javihaller.bsky.social sd.usd.cas.cz/pdfs/sod/202... #Spain #EastGermany #antifascism #coldwar #Franco #DDR #communistparty #communism

My essay on the Popular Front is now also available in English via the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung website @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

Episode 5 of my audiodocumentary on the Cuban Missile Crisis is live! In this episode, Dustin Walcher and I *finally* get around to discussing the crisis itself, yay! Please share and give it a listen! #history 🗃️ @shafrhistorians.bsky.social soundcloud.com/historiaspod...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS: «The Courage of Being Young»: Transnational Communism and Youth (1917-1991) Márgenes III. International Congress of Young Researchers in Contemporary History. Logroño, 8-10 July 2026 We invite PhD candidates/no before 2020. Details bit.ly/3O6QKM9 Submit by Feb 15 bit.ly/4bBf1Uw

#CfP “Militancias, actores y agencias en los comunismos de la España del siglo XX” 28 de mayo @sorbonne-universite.fr socialhistoryportal.org/news/article... @20thccommunism.bsky.social

#CfP “Militancias, actores y agencias en los comunismos de la España del siglo XX” 28 de mayo @sorbonne-universite.fr socialhistoryportal.org/news/article... @20thccommunism.bsky.social

FREE DOWNLOAD: The new Yearbook takes the GDR seriously as an autonomous historical actor & opens up new perspectives. 12 contributions remind us that the 2 Germanies remained entangled even during their partition. Eds. Dierk Hoffmann, Hermann Wentker & Jonathan R. Zatlin. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55358

If you want a copy in return for a review contact @samwetherell.bsky.social

If you want a copy in return for a review contact @samwetherell.bsky.social

If you’re in Dundee on the 25th of February there’s a talk on my great grandfather at the Broughty Ferry Community Library. ‘Bob Stewart- The Dundee Folk Hero Who Spied for Stalin’ All details below.

A young boy raises his fist during an election rally of the Italian Communist Party. 22 May 1971 #PCI #CommunistParty #Italy #Election #Rally #Italian #Votes

A Russian historian's take on what prompted Stalin to leave his son in a German concentration camp, based on the recently declassified interrogation of Yakov Dzhugashvili, Stalin's eldest son.

If you’re looking for labour history-affiliated and -adjacent people and organisations, here’s our starter pack go.bsky.app/CUqdx9a

A Sputnik-themed car deployed in Rome by the Italian Communist Party ahead of the 1958 general election. #Italy #USSR #SovietUnion #space #PCI #CCCP

Pleased to say my new book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social will be available in rest of Europe and the US from 5 January. ‘A fascinating mixture of travelogue, micro-history and personal reflection.’ Literary Review global.oup.com/academic/pro...

A Sputnik-themed car deployed in Rome by the Italian Communist Party ahead of the 1958 general election. #Italy #USSR #SovietUnion #space #PCI #CCCP

Two new INZ publications are out! 1️⃣ Socialist agricultural policy: origins and implementations (Perspicacités 29) 2️⃣ Contributions to Contemporary History 2025/3 Both available in open access: omp.inz.si & ojs.inz.si 👉 Happy reading!

Zomaar wat schilderwerkjes met Leonid Brezjnev. Heb geen zin om de makers op te zoeken. Hier nog veel meer: maysuryan.livejournal.com/2515996.html

Seller of the Schabowski note - that led to the fall of the wall - must be named. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/gesc...

Seller of the Schabowski note - that led to the fall of the wall - must be named. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/gesc...

BAB-Weihnachtsverlosung 🤶🎄auf Instagram! Zu gewinnen gibt es Bücher 📚: "Rock im Osten" von Tom Koltermann und "Red Metal" von Nikolai Okunew. Teilnahmeschluss ist der morgige Donnerstag, 18.12.25, 9 Uhr. Kommt rüber und hüpft in den Lostopf! 👉 tinyurl.com/xmasverlosung

East Berlin Spies, Artists, and Revolutionaries! Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde with @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social . youtu.be/q7KhxD-6YkA?...

#OpenAccess “The UK–USSR Film Weeks of 1959: Examining Political, Cultural and Industrial Motivations in Cultural Exchange Activity” by James Fenwick www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @royalhistsoc.org #USSR #Soviet #SovietUnion #CCCP #UdSSR #SowjetUnion #cinema #Kino #movie

#OpenAccess “The UK–USSR Film Weeks of 1959: Examining Political, Cultural and Industrial Motivations in Cultural Exchange Activity” by James Fenwick www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @royalhistsoc.org #USSR #Soviet #SovietUnion #CCCP #UdSSR #SowjetUnion #cinema #Kino #movie

Brandsätze, Bomben, durchtrennte Leitungen: Der Vortrag über Sabotage gegen die DDR zwischen Widerstand & Geheimdienst von @eheitzer.bsky.social auf unserer Ringvorlesung ‚Hybride Konflikte im Kalten Krieg‘ @humboldtuni.bsky.social jetzt komplett im IfZ-Youtube-Kanal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z37a...

˙ Ausstellungseröffnung und Lesung „VILMA – Eine jüdische Kommunistin im französischen Widerstand“ 12. Dezember 2025 10:30 Uhr Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück @ravensbrueck-sbg.bsky.social #Ravensdruck #Ernst-Litfaß-Schule ˙ www.ravensbrueck-sbg.de/veranstaltun...

Does any other non Soviet Eastern Bloc country have a nostalgia culture with so much international appeal as the GDR? I get the impression that socialist era Poland and Romania really doesn’t have much traction if any in this regard.

This week, we’re delighted to welcome Mark Reeder to the show. The Berlin-based producer talks us through his journey from Manchester to Berlin, putting on illegal gigs in the GDR, smuggling East German uniforms back to the West, and encountering The Fall along the way. (1/2)

Bern after reading: Switzerland was a hub for communist China’s spy networks in the Cold War. 🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

East Berlin, Stalinallee, 8 September 1959. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing). #Berlin #DDR #GDR

Einer der wichtigsten Verträge in der deutschen und europäischen Geschichte: Der 2+4-Vertrag - auch den bezeichnet die Kremlpropaganda mittlerweile als Okkupationsvertrag, so jedenfalls bekommen es die russischen Schüler*innen seit einiger Zeit im Geschichtsunterricht vermittelt.

An opportunity lost: Good will between the US and USSR following the assassination of JFK can be felt in this collection of Top Secret reports and correspondence. Hopes ran high for common ground, and then came LBJ and intensified operations in Vietnam. Cancel the Christmas cards.

Where sections of the Berlin Wall pieces can be found around the world www.dw.com/en/where-sec...

#OTD 1917 the 'October' Revolution took place in Russia Our archives include significant primary sources on the relationship between Britain and Russia in the decade following the 1917 revolutions 650+ documents have been digitised and are freely available online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Leute, die Plakate für den 27.11. sind da 😍 Den Termin habt ihr euch schon geblockt, ne?

Sibylle Bergemann, Das Denkmal (Kerber Verlag, 2025; DE/EN/FR, #skystorians, #photography): kerberverlag.com/de/buecher/s...

GDR assets: The mystery of the missing billions — Part 1

#BOOKGIVEAWAY Follow @coldwarpod.bsky.social then reshare & reply to this post to enter a chance to win a copy of this book. T&C's & other ways to enter here coldwarconversations.com/giveaway/ #eastgermany #GDR #DDR #Berlinwall @DDROnline.bsky.social @GermanAtPompey.bsky.social

East Germany 1986. In an old sketchbook, I discovered sketches from 1986 of a guided tour to VEB Schwarze Pumpe, GDR, organized by SEW Westberlin. It was quite a peculiar experience at the time. #urbansketching #ddr #schwarzepumpe You can view it on my sketch blog: sketches.surrey.de/1986/11/17/v...

Fascinated by #eastgermany #ddr #gdr ? go.bsky.app/drcrDK

Coming soon!📚🗃🗃 I contributed with a chapter: Writing Contemporary History in Late Socialist Hungary: Dissecting Institutional Legacies.