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.

I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

Today in the Italian Communist Party archives I found a spreadsheet sent by the party in Rome to all of its local federations where party secretaries were asked to report all acts of political violence, and there was a specific line asking them to count all acts of "proletarian shopping"

Just added 50 new photos to my visual repository of reading acts in China, chinareading.wordpress.com -- too many great images to repost here, but these are the four that stood out for me. Go visit the website and browse the 300+ historical photographs of people reading in China!

#digital #archive Nice online collection of Spanish Civil War communist ephemera: library.ucsd.edu/dc/search?f%...

The Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class History is now open for submissions! Full details here: go.illinois.edu/UIPGutmanPrize cc: @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social

Who has written analytically about the concept of 'Marxolgy'? Has someone tried to define what Marxology is? What is its aims and practices? Its methods?

Recently learned that the more well-known illustration of the French edition of Capital (first image) was not the only one, and that there were at least two others that were full of republican iconography (second and third image)

Dear friends: I am SO EXCITED to announce the release of the first episode of the SECOLAS audio documentary mini-series on the Cuban Missile Crisis that I co-produced with Dustin Walcher! (thread 1/7) #History 🗃️ soundcloud.com/historiaspod...

For those who study Societ history - Reimagining Soviet Gerogia is a podcast with the participation of scholars talking about their research. Thank you Bryan and Sopiko for inviting me! Look up for the long list of previous series! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Episode with @historyned.bsky.social coming soon to @coldwarpod.bsky.social

Talking with @renatakeller.bsky.social about the Cuban Missile Crisis in Latin America. Check out our latest podcast and her new book from @uncpress.bsky.social in the thread below

Fellowships for doctoral candidates or postdoctoral researchers from Poland or Ukraine for a stay of up to six months in Halle. 👇 www.aleksander-brueckner-zentrum.org/forschung/au...

List of researchers focusing on the German Democratic Republic go.bsky.app/drcrDK #DDR #GDR #RDA #EastGermany

Teachers of Russian and Soviet history! Join us in Manchester this November for unique @histassoc.bsky.social event with 3 world-leading scholars to discuss pedagogical approaches to teaching Russian and Soviet cultures, gender and sexualities www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

Tomorrow is my book's official pub date! I'm celebrating by tackling a whole new social media platform and hosting an #AskMeAnything on Reddit! Join me and ask me anything about my book, the Cuban Missile Crisis, my hobbies, publishing...whatever! @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

Excited to announce that we've finally printed a small run of our newest photo book "Faces From The East" - a 32 page documentation of soviet faces left behind after the military withdrawal of the Soviet Union from East Germany. Grab your copy now! -> digitalcosmonaut.com/faces-from-t...

Even the chroniclers of the Roaring '20s found something in Marx, writes Robin Blackburn. F. Scott Fitzgerald insisted to his daughter that she read “the terrible chapter in 'Das Kapital' on the Working Day, and see if you are ever quite the same.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

List of researchers focusing on the German Democratic Republic go.bsky.app/drcrDK #DDR #GDR #RDA #EastGermany

New post from me on Breaking the Fetters. All about my grandfather not being called up to fight in the Second World War because he was a massive communist. breakingthefetters.com/2025/10/11/w...