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Immo Rebitschek @immorebitschek.bsky.social · 1d

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...

Ausschreibungen

www.aleksander-brueckner-zentrum.org

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History of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Alistair Dickins @alistairdickins.bsky.social · Jul 15

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...

Sex, symbols, gods, devils: teaching Russian and Soviet cultures, gender, and sexualities

www.history.org.uk

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 2d

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

Blurb for Renata Keller's book The Fate of the Americas

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iamkosmonaut @iamkosmonaut.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 2d

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...

The Triumphs and Travails of American Marxism

Karl Marx never visited the United State but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless.

www.thenation.com

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History of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 5d

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...

Wartime Scrapbook (Marxist-Leninist)

Despite growing up in the 1970s, The Second World War loomed large in my childhood. Probably due to a mixture of factors but mainly because the children who had grown up in its shadow were now the …

breakingthefetters.com

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History of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social · 6d

#competition
The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory invites researchers up to the age of 35 to participate in an international competition aimed at encouraging academic research on the history of communism.
Deadline: 3 november 2025
mnemosyne.ee/en/competiti...

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Twentieth Century Communism journal @20thccommunism.bsky.social · 20d

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...

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)

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Pablo @pablogv17.bsky.social · 16d

🌍 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.

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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 17d

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

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Filip Kovacevic @chekistmonitor.bsky.social · 23d

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

Deception Operation STORM

Faking the landing of CIA agents in Lithuania in the early Cold War

tinyurl.com

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Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde @isgv.bsky.social · 27d

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...

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Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social · Sep 1

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...

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · Sep 2

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)

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · Aug 25

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.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Aug 24

Final cover proof!

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

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · Aug 24

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

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · Aug 22

🎉 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

The 2025 Political Theory Prize is awarded to Bruno Leipold

European Consortium for Political Research

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History of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social · Aug 22

Congratulations! 📖🏆

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Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas @jahrbuecherjgo.bsky.social · Aug 19

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...

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Aug 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...

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · Aug 4

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.

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Filip Kovacevic @chekistmonitor.bsky.social · Aug 4

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...

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