The International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online IX

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International Contact Group Research in Former Soviet Archives on Issues of Historical Political
Economy.
http://www.soviet-archives-research.co.uk/ Secretary: Mark Harrison
By maintaining this site the International Contact Group aims to promote academic research in the archives of
the former Soviet Union, especially by younger scholars, on issues of historical political economy including
topics in economic history, economic and political institutions, and decision-making of all kinds, and also
research on comparative and international lines. In conjunction with the University of Warwick’s Department of
Economics, the International Contact Group disseminates new research through the PERSA Working Papers.
The website contains: • Archive Guides (Part 1, Moscow): M. J. Berry and M.J. Ilic, Using the Russian Archives:
an Informal Practical guide for Beginners Based on Users’ Experience. British Academic Committee for
Collaboration with Russian Archives, in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies,
University of Birmingham, first published July 1999, revised for electronic publication in December 2002. •
Archive Links: Other Web-based information on Russian Archives. • History Links: Links to other Russian
History Sites. • Meetings: Forthcoming and recent meetings notified to the Contact Group. • PERSA Papers:
Political Economy Research in Soviet Archives Working Paper Series. • Publications by Members of the Contact
Group. • Research: Current projects by members of the Contact Group.
Communist History Network Newsletter (CHNN), University of Manchester –
http://les1.man.ac.uk/chnn/
The on-line edition of the Communist History Network Newsletter (CHNN) is a twice-yearly publication
concerned with all aspects of current historical research into the life and work of communists and communist
parties across the world. The CHNN serves both as a means of contact between researchers active in this area
and a forum for sharing the results of new research. The Newsletter includes reports on conferences, recently
completed theses and ‘work in progress’, details on new archival findings and other sources, and reviews of
new publications in the field. The CHNN is made available in three formats: on-line, as a paper document and
via e-mail.
Contents, Issue 13, Autumn 2002: Editors’ introduction. Announcements: The CPGB and Bengali
Immigrants. Communist Studies on-line. Pathé Digital News Archive. Seminar Summaries: Comintern Colonial
Politics, John Callaghan. Bolshevizing Communist Parties – the Algerian and South African experiences, Allison
Drew. The Comintern and the Hidden History of Indian Communism, Sobhanlal Datta Gupta. Research notes:
A note on James Barke, John Manson. Features: Schizophrenia at Sachsenhausen, Archie Potts. The Comintern
and the Indian Revolutionaries in Russia in the 1920s, Sobhanlal Datta Gupta. Reviews: British Communist