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History of Communism
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History of Communism publishes documents, visuals and studies of and about communist movements and events with the aim of stimulating and supporting academic research on communism.
#digital #archive
Nice online collection of Spanish Civil War communist ephemera:
library.ucsd.edu/dc/search?f%...
October 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
#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...
October 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
July 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
#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
June 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#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
June 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
#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
May 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#Online #Archive #OpenAccess

More than 59,000 online documents concerning the S-21 prison (Tuol Sleng) of the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh, Cambodia:
archives.tuolsleng.gov.kh

#Khmer #Kampuchea #CPK #PolPot #Cambodia
April 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Updated information (feb. 2025):
“The Thälmann Brigade at the Ebro front: Research on missing people”
repositori.justicia.gencat.cat/bitstream/ha...
April 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
#Online #Archive #OpenAccess

The ‘Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe’ (MEGA) is the online historical-critical edition of the publications, manuscripts and correspondence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

megadigital.bbaw.de/index.xql
April 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
#New #OpenAcces

“Translation in der DDR – eine verflochtene Geschichte / Translation in the GDR – An Entangled History”
chronotopos.eu/cts/issue/vi...

#EastGermany #China #Yugoslavia #USSR #Soviet #socialist #communist #literature #Aufbau #Dietz #Volk&Welt #Reclam #Verlag #DDR #GDR
March 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
#OnlineArchive
The @arolsenarchives.bsky.social
contains about 30 million documents from Nazi concentration camps, details of forced labour, and files on displaced persons. Like, for example, the file of the German communist Wilhelm Frankenberg.

collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search
March 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
#OpenAccess

Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus

www.neu.inkrit.de/index.php/de...
March 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Huge online database of the @baufarbeitung.bsky.social with more than 65,000 photos mainly from the GDR, but also from other former socialist republics: fotoarchiv.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de

#communism #socialism #photography #pictures #history #politics #culture #sport #gdr #ussr #soviet
March 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Huge online movie archive of the Communist Party of France by @cine-archives.bsky.social.

With movies about Lenin, the Spanish war, mobilizations against the Indochina war and the Algerian war, demonstrations for Angela Davis, Ben Chavis, Mandela…

www.cinearchives.org

#SocialistSunday #Communism
February 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The Teatro Principal (Rambla de Barcelona)converted into the Headquarters of the POUM.

August, 1936.

UCLA - The Packard Humanities Institut
(Thanks to El Boig de Can Fanga)
January 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
#colloquium
Socialistische transnationaliteit en de transfer van Nederlandstalige literatuur (panel 17)
25-29.08.2025 @VUB Brussel

colloquium.ivn.nu/programma-7

@neerlandistiek.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
#OpenAccess
Monuments and Territory:
War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine
By @mgabo.bsky.social & Mykola Homanyuk, CEU Press, 2025.
ceupress.com/sites/ceupre...
#memory #heritage #centraleurope #ukraine #warmemorial #ussr #soviet #sovietunion #udssr #sowjetunion #memorial #osteuropa
December 17, 2024 at 7:41 PM
December 3, 2024 at 8:14 AM
#OpenAccess #new
Exiled in East Germany: Life Stories of Malawian and South African Freedom Fighters during the Cold War by Sebastian Pampuch, 2024,
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social.

library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

#GDR #DDR #exil #SACP #ANC #internationalism #ColdWar
November 16, 2024 at 4:54 AM
#OpenAccess #New
Showing resistance:
Propaganda and Modernist exhibitions in Britain, 1933–53 by Harriet Atkinson, 2024,
@manchesterup.bsky.social
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
November 14, 2024 at 4:51 PM
#Exhibition
“Stus”: international exhibition about the Ukrainian anti-Soviet dissident poet Vasyl Stus | Berlin, 17.10.24 - 31.05.25
berlin.instytutpileckiego.pl/de/events/ex...
@boell.de @uahistory.bsky.social #Ukrain #resistance #literature #CCCP #SovietUnion #poetry
November 14, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Soon after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 the UN General Assembly set up a special committee to investigate both the uprising and its suppression. The digitized collection of the committee's secretary, Claire de Héderváry, is now fully accessible: www.archivum.org/news/new-doc...
#USSR #ColdWar
November 12, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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(Credits to @coldwarpod.bsky.social)
November 10, 2024 at 3:45 PM
October 23, 2024 at 3:10 PM