The latest issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal has been published by @lawrencewishart.bsky.social Issue 29 is the second issue dedicated to looking at histories of 1956 globally, edited by Madeleine Davis and George Odysseos. A 🧵 of the articles... journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

🌍 Le 2e número spécial "Global 1956" vient de paraître chez @20thccommunism.bsky.social ! J'ai eu le plaisir d'y participer avec un article qui veut contribuer à l'histoire globale de l'Espagne pendant la guerre froide, ici dans une approche transnationale et microhistorique.

Historians, archivists, librarians and historians working in the field of labour history. A starter pack to get you going… go.bsky.app/CUqdx9a

Soviet deception operation you probably never heard about. Operation STORM, #MGB plan to fake the landing of #CIA agents in Lithuania. Based on my ongoing archival research at @hooverinstitution.bsky.social The link for my article: tinyurl.com/5h4zyj6c #spies #coldwar @socintelhist.bsky.social

Am Dienstag stellt Merve Lühr im Zeitgeschichtlichen Forum in Leipzig ihr Buch über das Erinnern an das Brigadeleben in der DDR vor. 23.9.2025 19 Uhr Eintritt frei! Infos: www.isgv.de/aktuelles/ve...

Un livre important vient de paraître : "La Croix-Rouge face à l'Étoile rouge - The Red Cross Facing the Red Star", dirigé par Jean-François Fayet, Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Marie Cugnet et Donia Hasler. Disponible en #OpenAccess : www.georg.ch/la-croix-fac...

Chinese volunteers who fought in the International Brigades interned at Argèles-sur-Mer Concentration Camp (pre Vichy France) early 1939 in front of their banner. Some 60 Chinese fought against Franco in the IBs. (PS there was never a "Chinese detachment" in IBs as banner claims)

Karl Marx, enemy of the constitution? 🚩 The Hamburg Administrative Court recently held that Marx’s social theory is incompatible with the German constitution. BRUNO LEIPOLD (@brunoleipold.com) argues: The judges got Marx wrong. verfassungsblog.de/marx-constit...

One of Gerda Taro's early photos from the Spanish Civil War. Women in Catalan communist party (PSUC) training for militia on Barcelona beach (probably Camp de la Bota, today's Forum), August 1936.

Final cover proof! Pre-order the hardback edition for your institutional library now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

Lovely to find in today’s Sunday Times this excellent discussion of INDIGNITY🤩🧿🐥!

🎉 Congratulations @brunoleipold.com (@lsepoltheory.bsky.social) for winning our 2025 Political Theory Prize ⭐ Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought (@princetonupress.bsky.social) 👉 More about the winner buff.ly/TweS2Bw #ECPRPrizes

Jonathan D. Oldfield: The Soviet Union and Global Environmental Change. Modifying the Biosphere and Conceptualizing Society-Nature Interaction. Rezension von Mariia Koskina #OpenAccess in Heft 3/2024 #JahrbücherJGO: biblioscout.net/article/99.1...

Friends, my book HOTEL LUX is currently available for £0.99 on the Kindle Store. An intimate view of the revolution that changed the world, based on 7 years of research in archives across the globe. Please do check it out! www.amazon.co.uk/Hotel-Lux-In...

Any historians of communism or espionage out there willing to hazard a guess as to why Bob Stewart of the CPGB made several journeys to France (Boulogne & Dieppe then to in all likelihood on to Paris) during the first eight months of 1939? MI5 were very interested. As am I.

What did KGB Know About Iran's SAVAK and CIA in Iran in Mid-1970s? Find out in my new article just published on Substack. #espionage #coldwarhistory @socintelhist.bsky.social Here's the link: open.substack.com/pub/kgbstack...

Twentieth Century Communism journal is looking for reviewers for these books. Send a DM if you're interested reviewing one of these!

Bob Stewart, Grigory Zinoviev, Ho Chi Minh and others. Moscow 1924. If anyone can help identify the others I’d be eternally grateful. Picture courtesy of @mauricejcasey.com

#Digitized #collection “Cultural Revolution in Images: Caricature-Posters from Guangzhou 1966-1977” repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/collectio... Thanks to @evansmithhist.bsky.social #China #visuals #Hongkong #CPC #communism #communistparty #PRC #peoplesrepublic #CCP #CulturalRevolution

Laura Pozzi, who curated the CUHK exhibition, and I (based on my work on the largest collection of Chinese caricatures at Maoist Legacy) have an article exploring the last leg of these caricatures -- targeting Jiang Qing during the anti-Gang of Four campaign of 1976-1978, doi.org/10.1215/1067...

#Digitized #collection “Cultural Revolution in Images: Caricature-Posters from Guangzhou 1966-1977” repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/collectio... Thanks to @evansmithhist.bsky.social #China #visuals #Hongkong #CPC #communism #communistparty #PRC #peoplesrepublic #CCP #CulturalRevolution

Hace 54 años, en julio de 1971, la Unión Soviética donaba a Chile una fábrica de paneles de hormigón para construir edificios de viviendas en poco tiempo. El hilo de hoy es sobre la historia de los icónicos edificios KPD.

Who put a labubu on Karl Marx’s grave

#marxengelswerke 📘 Beziehungsstatus MEW 3: kompliziert. Der Band ist ein harter Brocken. Warum erklären wir unten. Erstmal die gute Nachricht: Zur Feier der Tatsache, dass Band 3 als Paperback wieder verfügbar ist, verlosen wir heute 1 Exemplar. Die Teilnahme am Gewinnspiel… /1

A hidden prison system. Decades of silence. UNSILENCING by Lilia Topouzova exposes #Bulgaria’s secret forced labor camps and the fight to confront a past no one wanted to remember. It is a #history everyone should know. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

I just published my first post on Substack. It's about #KGB defector Yuri Nosenko as a young man in the Soviet Union. Based on both Russian & #CIA archives. #spies #lies #topsecret Read the full post here: open.substack.com/pub/kgbstack...

This week in 1936 was the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. @20thccommunism.bsky.social has published several articles on communists and the conflict. First is a 2014 article by David Featherstone on African American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2014...

On this day, 19 July 1936, the rebel Spanish military rose in Barcelona against the elected government. An unusual combination of anarchist and other workers with the loyal police, often fighting side by side, defeated them. By the next day. 450 lay dead. Photo Pérez de Rozas

Saumyendranath Tagore's "Karl Liebknecht" (1934), a biography of the German communist in Bengali, is now available on archive.org archive.org/details/doc-...

Rez: C. Gatzka u.a. (Hrsg.): Der Ort des Kommunismus in den westeuropäischen Demokratien seit 1945 https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-153310 C. Gatzka u.a. (Hrsg.): Der Ort des Kommunismus in den westeuropäischen Demokratien seit 1945

#OpenAccess “Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975” by @nataliatelepneva.bsky.social pure.strath.ac.uk/ws/portalfil... @uncpress.bsky.social

#OpenAccess “Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975” by @nataliatelepneva.bsky.social pure.strath.ac.uk/ws/portalfil... @uncpress.bsky.social

One year teaching fellow post at Warwick University in Modern Eastern European History. I will be on academic leave next year and the Histoty Department looks for someone to teach my two modules on Ukrainian History and on Stalinism. Look here warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Recently rediscovered in an attic, and now framed: a Soviet propaganda poster I bought in Moscow in 1987. It reproduces Lenin's 1917 'Decree on Peace' with the slogan 'Socialism in Peace and Creation'. Published in 1986, during perestroika, but drawing on long-established Soviet design and slogans

Neue Online-Ausstellung zu Opfern stalinistischer Gewalt. Präsentation am 25. 06.2025 um 18 Uhr in #Berlin, Details hier www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/de/veranstal... www.donskoje1950-1953.de Die Veranstaltung wird im Livestream übertragen.

Interesting publications about the Uprising of 17 June 1953 in in the German Democratic Republic #GDR #East-Germany #SED

Der Kalte Krieg war auch ein Krieg der Geheimdienste. Daniela Münkel spricht am 17.6. auf der Berliner RV "Hybride Konflikte im Kalten Krieg" @humboldtuni.bsky.social über Spionage und Gegenspionage zwischen Stasi und Organisation Gehlen bzw. BND: www.berlinerkolleg.com/detail/gehei...

Are you a PhD student/ECR working on contemporary European history? If so, consider submitting to the @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize. Deadline 12 September. I strongly encourage submissions from those working on Central/Eastern Europe & the USSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#OpenAcces #digitized Dozens of digitized catalogs of art exhibitions in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR: www.arthistoricum.net/themen/textq... #art #artist #kunst #museum #germany #ussr

One year ago, we submitted the manuscript for our edited volume, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, to @manchesterup.bsky.social. Now it is ready for pre-order. Ask your institutional library to order a hardback edition! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

At bottom of La Rambla in front of what was the Hotel Falcón, the residency for the POUM's international volunteers as Orwell tells us in Homage to Catalonia. Gound floor is now the Andreu Nin public library, named after POUM leader murdered by Stalinist agents in June 1937.

Interesting thread about the annual communist party festivals in the West 👇

We have a new free article! 🥰 In this essay, Sonia García López and Marina Cavalcanti Tedesco explore the life and work of Rosina Prado, a Spanish-Soviet anti-fascist filmmaker who made documentaries at the ICAIC (Cuba) in the 1960s. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Interesting thread about the annual communist party festivals in the West 👇

On 17/06 Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and I organize a workshop on @brunoleipold.com 's 'Citizen Marx' at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven. Of interest to those within the Benelux working on republicanism or Marxism. If interested, email me: [email protected] hiw.kuleuven.be/ripple/events/

#New #OpenAccess “L‘Internationale on the move: Case studies on the world’s most translated anthem” In Chronotopos: A Journal of Translation History, 1/24, p. 163. chronotopos.eu/cts/issue/vi... @chrisdec71.bsky.social

1/Heute vor 50 Jahren: Die versuchte Eroberung des heiligen Ortes "Ehrenmal Treptower Park" durch bundesdeutsche Linksradikale (Namen im Text) der KPD-AO am 9. Mai 1975. Eine Aktion vor 50 Jahren, die vergessen ist und trotz einer dichten Überlieferungslage bislang nicht

#New #OpenAccess “L‘Internationale on the move: Case studies on the world’s most translated anthem” In Chronotopos: A Journal of Translation History, 1/24, p. 163. chronotopos.eu/cts/issue/vi... @chrisdec71.bsky.social