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Twentieth Century Communism: Volume 2025 Issue 29 (2025) - Lawrence Wishart Twentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history - Issue contents for Volume 2025 Issue 29 (2025)

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...

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🌍 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…
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Deception Operation STORM Faking the landing of CIA agents in Lithuania in the early Cold War

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)

Quote: “Ironically, the judges of the Hamburg Administrative Court would benefit from a Marx reading group to better participate in just such a debate.”

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🤩🧿🐥!

The 2025 Political Theory Prize is awarded to Bruno Leipold European Consortium for Political Research

🎉 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

Congratulations! 📖🏆

Cover des rezensierten Buches

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:

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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

Marx-Engels-Werke Band 3 (Paperback) von Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, im Raum fotografiert. Er enthält Texte von 1845 bis 1846, nämlich Marx/Engels: Die deutsche Ideologie und Marx: Thesen über Feuerbach. Mit neuem Vorwort, neuer Beilage (Feuerbach-Kapitel) und Konkordanztabelle zur Entstehungsgeschichte und Anordnung der Manuskripte der »Deutschen Ideologie«; 10. erweiterte Aufl. (1. Aufl. als Paperback) – in Textauswahl und Textanordnung unverändert nach Band 3, 9. Aufl. 1990.

#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

Unsilencing by Lilia Topouzova | Hardcover | Cornell University Press Unsilencing provides the first comprehensive study of Bulgaria's forced-labor camps, a network of repression that operated throughout the communist era from 1945 to 1989. Lilia Topouzova uncovers the....

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...

A Portrait of KGB Defector Yuri Nosenko as a Young Man When the documents from the Russian and American archives are put side by side, it becomes evident that Nosenko was not truthful to the CIA about significant events in his early life.

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...

Black internationalism, international communism and anti-fascist political trajectories: African American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War - Lawrence Wishart This paper considers some of the political trajectories of the ninety or so African Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil Wa

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