For all those interested in the history of the Second World War and Latvia, we have a new author interview for you. Check out our conversation with @harrymerritt.bsky.social on his recently-published book 'Latvian Soldiers of World War II' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/latvian...

SOON! Imagining the Future in Russia’s February Revolution of 1917: Instant Voices in the Press Across the Empire, edited by Franziska Schedewie and Dennis Dierks brill.com/display/titl...

#Archive #OpenAccess Huge Archive of 617 Soviet Armenian Posters: digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog?f%5B... Thanks to @evansmithhist.bsky.social & @uclalibrary.bsky.social #Armenia #SSRA #USSR #SovietUnion #Propaganda #Posters #Design #Soviétique #Arménie #Armenii

#Archive #OpenAccess Huge Archive of 617 Soviet Armenian Posters: digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog?f%5B... Thanks to @evansmithhist.bsky.social & @uclalibrary.bsky.social #Armenia #SSRA #USSR #SovietUnion #Propaganda #Posters #Design #Soviétique #Arménie #Armenii

Dans «les cantines bolchéviques», la faim de l’homme rouge

" Les cantines bolchéviques : une histoire du stalinisme vécu " #CaféSIRICE autour de l'ouvrage de François-Xavier Nérard @ordzon.bsky.social ⏲️Le 8/06 à 17h 📆 Bât. recherche Nord @campuscondorcet.bsky.social #Vendredilecture ▶️ Infos sur sirice.eu/agenda/cafe-...

Wer ist diese Frau? Ihre Stasi-Akten beschreiben Uta als „groß“, „schlank“, „sehr intelligent, z. T. auch sehr raffiniert“. Sie nennen sie „mannstoll“ und notieren, dass sie „sehr viel raucht und auch viel Alkohol verkonsumiert“. (1/5)

In 1945, the UK published a lengthy Top Secret memorandum on how to deter or defeat the Soviet threat. A Soviet spy in London's intelligence ranks obtained a copy, translated it, and put it in Josef Stalin's hands. And it is every bit as compelling a read now as it was then. See for yourself.

Spent a lot of time in the attic at mum’s house this weekend and found lots of things I’d never seen before. Here’s a telegram sent to Bob Stewart on his 90th birthday from the leader of the DDR Walter Ulbricht.

Für die "Edition Judenverfolgung" (VEJ) habe ich die beiden Bände zum #Holocaust in den besetzten sowjetischen Gebieten (einschließlich Baltikum) erstellt. Rund 600 Dokumente, übersetzt aus 13 Sprache, mit 2 ausführlichen Einleitungen. Sie sind jetzt im #OpenAccess verfügbar. 1/2

In the autumn of 1953, approximately 25 percent of the SED members were former NSDAP members and Nazi functionaries, and there were approximately 50 members of the GDR's People's Chamber who had been Nazis in the "Third Reich".

It's Karl Marx's Birthday today (He'd be 208). And by a happy coincidence, it's also the publication day of my book, Flourishing Together Karl Marx's Vision of the Good Society. academic.oup.com/book/62523

Beyond The Footnotes Of History: The Life And Politics Of Suhasini Chattopadhyay | #IndianWomenInHistory feminisminindia.com/2026/03/23/b...

New lecture series on "Soviet Biology in Changing Environments: Nature, Knowledge, and Life under Transformation," with Anna Mazanik, Stephen Brain, Dmitriy Myelnikov, and ALexandra Noi. #EnvHist #EnvHum

Jewish nurses, Plaça Catalunya, Barcelona #onthisday 1 May 1937, most originally from Poland, part of that terrible European diaspora from dictatorship and repression, now against fascism in Spain. En route to Belgian-run hospital at Ontinyent in Valencia. See book Las mamás belgas by Sven Tuytens

So, shockingly, I have an article in the Journal of Olympic Studies. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jos/arti.... It's co-authored with Mikhail Prozumenshchikov of the Russian archives, and it tells the (quite curious) story of the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

NEW BOOK At 91, the legendary Alexander Rabinowitch returns with a new study on the Bolsheviks in 1919. ​A stunning testament to endless intellectual longevity. @upittpress.bsky.social upittpress.org/books/978082...

Call for Papers: Edited Volume: Britain to South Asia: From Imperial Anti-Bolshevism to Cold War Frameworks, 1920–1971 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

One of the most interesting academic journals, containing a wealth of articles on communism, has been fully digitised. Highly recommended!

Forty years ago today, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had a rough night. Check out our archive of Chernobyl articles here. translatinghistory.org/category/che...

The name of the POUM, the Marxist anti-Stalinist militia with which Orwell fought on the Aragón front, inscribed by some militia fighter in 1936-37 on the stone of this old farm hut, near Tierz, Huesca.

The 1926 census confirms what I suggested in the article: Sidney and Rose Arnold had clearly returned from Soviet Russia by the mid-1920s. Here they are living in Malahide:

#OpenAccess #archive Thousands of digitised photos from the GDR era in Leipzig. recherche-stadtarchiv.leipzig.de/actaproweb/s... #Photography #DDR #EastGermany #Leipzig #online #freeaccess #DDR #pictures

#OpenAccess #archive Thousands of digitised photos from the GDR era in Leipzig. recherche-stadtarchiv.leipzig.de/actaproweb/s... #Photography #DDR #EastGermany #Leipzig #online #freeaccess #DDR #pictures

As Dzerzhinskii expert, Iain Lauchlan, once wrote:

Putin signed a decree today renaming the FSB Academy in honor of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the creator of the Cheka, responsible for political terror after the 1917 revolution and a predecessor of the KGB & FSB. The decree hails Dzerzhinsky's "outstanding contribution to state security."

Jaap Kloosterman is dead. He was affiliated with @ialhi.bsky.social and worked at the IISH in Amsterdam for years. iisg.amsterdam/en/blog/memo...

#Exhibition “Hidden: Photography and displacement under the Khmer Rouge” 🗓️ 5 May 2026 - 15 May 2026 @wienerlibrary.bsky.social wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/h... #KhmerRouge #Cambodia #Kampuchea #Photography

#Exhibition “Hidden: Photography and displacement under the Khmer Rouge” 🗓️ 5 May 2026 - 15 May 2026 @wienerlibrary.bsky.social wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/h... #KhmerRouge #Cambodia #Kampuchea #Photography

Great collection of documents here from @nsarchive.bsky.social for the 65th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Invasion... important warnings for today, too! #History #Cuba 🗃️ nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Es geht los. Herzlich Willkommen an der Gedenkstätte Bautzner Straße Dresden!

Check out the new issue of Twentieth Century Communism with new original research articles. (link contains also one free to download article) journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2026...

#OpenAccess Nice collection of French communist digitised brochures. pandor.u-bourgogne.fr/fr/archives-...

#OpenAccess Nice collection of French communist digitised brochures. pandor.u-bourgogne.fr/fr/archives-...

On today at 2pm CET! Check the link on how to get a Zoom login if you want to partcipate remotely.

Calling #KS4, #KS5 teachers of Russian and Soviet History Leading international journal, Revolutionary Russia, seeks contributions to a special edition. A great opportunity to contribute to a wider conversation on teaching Russian/Soviet History! Full details 👇 sites.utexas.edu/creees/2026/...

Say hello to this fabulous group of Contemporary European Historians (by @conteurohistory.bsky.social )! Please follow all 👇 go.bsky.app/SU3jCJb

btw! for those who’ve been asking, the recordings from the Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group seminar series on Adorno & Communism—with Chris O’Kane & myself—are up on YouTube! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A great new article on Stalinist repression, 1937-45, showing how Soviet women formed a significant and systematically targeted group, and more so than previously understood.

Russisches Gericht erklärt Memorial-Menschenrechtler zu Extremisten Jahrzehntelang hat Memorial an der Aufarbeitung des Stalin-Terrors gearbeitet. Nun kriminalisiert Russland alle, die es mit der Bewegung in Verbindung bringen kann

#OpenAccess “American Relief and the Soviet Famine of 1921-1922” by @vcharnysh.bsky.social, Natalya Naumenko & Andrei Markevich papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @ssrn.bsky.social @maartenboudry.bsky.social #Famine #HumanitarianRelief #ForeignAid #SovietRussia #Food #USSR #ARA #AmericanRelief #USA

Interview with author of a new biography on Volin, the Russian anti-Bolshevik anarchist who was a founder of the first revolutionary soviet (workers' council) in 1905, later fought along side Makhno in Ukraine, and published a newspaper supporting the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.

#OpenAccess “American Relief and the Soviet Famine of 1921-1922” by @vcharnysh.bsky.social, Natalya Naumenko & Andrei Markevich papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @ssrn.bsky.social @maartenboudry.bsky.social #Famine #HumanitarianRelief #ForeignAid #SovietRussia #Food #USSR #ARA #AmericanRelief #USA

“Selbst die Ortsgruppe der KPÖ-Gemeinde Attersee, wo Reinthaller am Hof seiner Frau lebte, meinte, Reinthaller habe niemanden geschädigt.” 😳 #CommunistParty #Austria #KPÖ #Östenreich #SS #FPÖ

"Es haben einige sogar schön gefunden haben, dass er mal in #Dresden gearbeitet hat, das wurde fast romantisiert. Auch, dass man ihm früher applaudiert hat, dass er Deutsch spricht, fand ich unpassend. Es ging damals gar nicht darum, warum er diese Sprache gelernt hat."

Does anyone have any readings they'd suggest on 19th century Christian socialisms?

Now in #paperback, Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution by Anne O'Donnell reframes the Bolsheviks’ unprecedented attempts to abolish private property after the revolutions of 1917. Explore a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Visited Eisenhüttenstadt yesterday and had a chance to look at the very well curated exhibition about the contradictions of the “international solidarity” in the GDR.

The socialist classicist city hall of Eisenhüttenstadt. Built in 1953 when the city was still known as Stalinstadt - it was meant to be one of several monumental buildings in the city, though it was the only one ever completed.