The International Newsletter of Communist Studies XXIV/XXV (2018/19), nos. 31-32 332
AUTHORS
Gleb J. Albert
Dr. phil., born in 1981. Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Research fields: history of computing; youth cultures; history of communism; Soviet history. Co-editor of the International Newsletter of Communist Studies.
Recent publications: „Der vergessene ‚Brotkasten’. Neue Forschungen zur Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte des Heimcomputers“ In Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 59 (2019): 495–530;
Das Charisma der Weltrevolution. Revolutionärer Internationalismus in der frühen Sowjetgesellschaft 1917–1927, Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2017.
Barbara Allen
PhD 2001 Indiana University Bloomington; BA 1989 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Associate Professor of History at La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Research field: History of Russia since 1861 and of the USSR. Recent books: Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885–1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik (Brill, 2015, and Haymarket Books, 2016);
and Leaflets of the Russian Revolution: Socialist Organizing in 1917, Editor and translator (Haymarket Books, 2018).
Éric Aunoble
PhD, born in 1966. Senior lecturer and scientific collaborator at the University of Geneva.
Research fields: Revolutionary and early Soviet period in Ukraine. Recent monograph: La Révolution russe, une histoire française: Lectures et représentations depuis 1917, Paris: La Fabrique, 2016. Website:
Bernhard H. Bayerlein
Doctorate in philosophy (History and Romance studies) of the Ruhr University Bochum and Habilitation of the University of Burgondy, Dijon. Honorary senior researcher at the Institute of Social Movements, Bochum University, Germany. Editor of the International Newsletter of Communist Studies. Research fields: Global communist studies, political science, Iberian and archival studies. Recent publications include Deutschland – Rußland – Komintern 1918–
1943, 3 vols, 2014/15 (open access); German Communism, the Comintern and the Soviet Union in the Face of Hitler's „Seizure of Power" 1933. (...) About a World-Historic Failure. In:
Ralf Hofrogge/Norman Laporte (eds.): German Communism as Mass Movement, London, Lawrence & Wishart, July 2017. Co-author: International Communism and Transnational Solidarity: Radical Networks, Mass Movements and Global Politics, Leiden, Brill, 2016.
Pierre Broué (1926–2005)
Professor, Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble, University of Grenoble. Founder of the Leon Trotsky Institute, founder and editor of Cahiers Léon Trotsky, eminent historian of international communism, the Comintern, and Trotsky. Selected publications: Histoire de
The International Newsletter of Communist Studies XXIV/XXV (2018/19), nos. 31-32 333
l'Internationale communiste 1919–1943, Paris: Fayard, 1997; The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain, Chicago, Haymarket, 2008.
Juan Sebastián Califa
PhD, born in 1980. Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires and researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research in Argentina. Member of the Center for the Study of Workers and the Left (CEHTI). Research fields: left student movement and recent Argentine history. Recent publication: Reforma y Revolución. La radicalización política del movimiento estudiantil de la UBA, 1943–1966, Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 2014.
Gerd-Rainer Horn
Professor of political History at Sciences Po Paris. Research fields: History of Social Movements; History of Left Catholicsm in Western Europe; Transnational continental Western European History, 1920s–1980s. Selected publications: European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism, and Contingency in the 1930s, Oxford University Press, 1996; Western European Liberation Theology, 1924–1959: The First Wave, Oxford University Press, 2008; Forthcoming: The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe. Power Struggles and Rebellions, 1943–1948, Oxford University Press, 2020.
Jie Li
Completed his PhD in History at the University of Edinburgh in 2017. While his primary interest is modern and contemporary Chinese history, Jie Li’s research covers many fields, which include China’s international relations since 1949, the histories of the former Soviet Union and communism, and the Cold War. His recent publications are: Gorbachev’s Glasnost and the Debate on Chinese Socialism among Chinese Sovietologists, 1985–1999 (Journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies December 2016), Lenin in the Early 1980s China (Newcastle University Postgraduate Forum E-Journal 2016), Xinjiang’s Islamic Resurgence: A View from 1990s Chinese Sovietology (Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies 2016). He is teaching Chinese language and culture in Hong Kong.
Ottokar Luban
Ottokar Luban, born in 1937, studied history, political sciences, educational sciences, psychology, special education of handicapped students at the Pedagogical College and the Free University in Berlin (West), and became a teacher in Berlin. After retirement he joined the International Rosa Luxemburg Society Rosa Luxemburg include the Spartacus Group and the young Communist Party of Germany.
The catalogue of his German and English publications can be found via and Creativity in Proletarian Mass Movements – Theory and Practice” In International Critical Thought 9 (2019) 4, pp. 511–523; Rosa Luxemburgs Demokratiekonzept, Leipzig: Rosa- Luxemburg-Stiftung, 2008.
The International Newsletter of Communist Studies XXIV/XXV (2018/19), nos. 31-32 334
Andrej Marković
M.A., assistant lecturer, Department of History, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Moritz Neuffer
Doctoral candidate at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and a fellow in the doctoral studies program at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin (doctoral thesis submitted in November 2019). Research fields: History of theory, history of ideas, intellectual history;
history of the humanities; theory and history of social movements; periodical studies; theory of history. Recent publications: “Marxismus-Fatalismus. Heinz Dieter Kittsteiners Geschichtsphilosophie” In: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 11 (2017) 3, pp. 21–32 (with Christian Voller); Arbeit am Material. Die Theorie-Dokumentationen der Zeitschrift alternative.
Essay in the series »Sonderdruck«, Berlin 2017.
Dietrich Orlow
Professor (emerit.) of History at Boston University. Born in Hamburg, Germany, he obtained his Ph. D. under Gerhard Weinberg at the University of Michigan. He has written widely on contemporary German and comparative European political history, including a two-volume History of the Nazi Party (Pittsburgh, PA.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969 and 1973) and Common Destiny: A Comparative History of the Dutch, French, and German Social Democratic Parties, 1945–1969 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2000). His most recent scholarly production was The Socialist Reformers and the Collapse of the German Democratic Republic (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). The 8th edition of Dietrich Orlow’s college textbook, A History of Modern Germany, 1871 to Present (New York:
Routledge, 2018) was published in 2018.
Fredrik Petersson
Ph.D. and Associate Professor in Colonial and Post-Colonial Global History, Åbo Akademi University (ÅA). Received his doctoral degree in History (ÅA, 2013). Current position as lecturer in history at Luleå Technical University, and former experience as Lecturer in general history at ÅA (2014–18); Örebro University (2017–18); the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU, Moscow); Stockholm University; and the Swedish Defense College, Stockholm. Recent contribution in Bandung, Global History, and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He has published widely on twentieth century anti- colonialism, anti-imperialism and international communism.
Víctor Augusto Piemonte
PhD, born in 1981. Lecturer of Russian History at the University of Buenos Aires. Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). Research fields: Revolutionary Russia, Comintern, Communist Party of Argentina. Recent monograph:
“La Internacional Comunista y los comienzos del Secretariado Sudamericano a través de la sistematización regional del proceso de bolchevización”, Historia Crítica, N° 64, 2017, pp.
101–118.
The International Newsletter of Communist Studies XXIV/XXV (2018/19), nos. 31-32 335
Steve Smith
Professor of History, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford.
Research fields: History of modern Russia/Soviet Union; History of modern China;
Comparative history. Recent publications: Russia in Revolution. An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928, Oxford University Press 2017; The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism (ed.), Oxford University Press 2014; Revolution and the People in Russia and China, Cambridge University Press 2008.
Reiner Tosstorff
PD Dr., Department of History, University of Mainz. Publications include a history of the POUM in the Spanish Civil War (Die POUM in der spanischen Revolution, new ed. Köln 2016) and a history of the Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern: Die Rote Gewerkschaftsinternationale 1920–1937, Paderborn 2004; English edition: The Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) 1920–1937, Leiden e.a. 2016).
Agnès Sophie Vollmer
Doctoral candidate at the Institute for Contemporary History, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Andy Willimott
PhD. Born 1984. Lecturer in Modern Russian History, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Winner of the Alexander Nove Book Prize for: Living the Revolution. Urban Communes &
Soviet Socialism, 1917–1932 (Oxford University Press, 2017). Edited volumes: Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide (Routledge, 2018). Research fields: revolutionary Russia, Soviet Union, utopia, radical history.
