AUTHORS
Maurice Andreu
Born in 1944 in France, is a former teacher in economics in various french lycées (from 1973 to 1992, first at the lycée de Colombes and after at the lycée Jacques Decour in Paris) and at the Université Paris-Nord (Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Villetaneuse et Bobigny, 1980-2004). His research interest is in the economic thought of the Communist International.
His main work is his “thèse d’université”: Sur la théorie de la «crise générale du capitalisme».
La genèse du concept de CGC. Contribution à une histoire des idées économiques dans l’Internationale Communiste de 1919 à 1929, Université de Villetaneuse-Paris XIII, 18 septembre 2000, 870 pp. This story of a well known formula, the “general crisis of capitalism”, shows that these words appeared only at the 6th World Congress of the Comintern (an invention of Bukharin) in 1928. The first part of this thesis is published as:
L’Internationale Communiste contre le capital, 1919-1924, ou comment empoigner l’adversaire capitaliste?, Paris, PUF, 2003, 320 pp. He has written various articles or papers on Joseph M. Gillman (postface to a French translation of The Falling Rate of Profit, in 1980), Jenö Varga (review of the Varga biography by André Mommen) and Bukharin.
Contact: andreu.maurice@club-internet.fr
William A. Booth
Born 1979. Doctoral Candidate, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London.
Research focus: Mexican communism during the 1940s. Other research interests: twentieth- century Mexico; Latin American politics and history; Marxism in North America; global communisms during the early Cold War.
Contact: William.Booth@postgrad.sas.ac.uk
Kasper Braskén
MA in General History, born in 1983. PhD Candidate in General History at the Faculty of Arts, Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Research fields: International solidarity, interwar communism, German cultural history. Forthcoming doctoral thesis: The Revival of International Solidarity: The Internationale Arbeiterhilfe, Willi Münzenberg and the Comintern in Weimar Germany, 1921-1933 (2013).
Contact: kbrasken@abo.fi
Sebastian Burghof
Magister Artium in Political Science and History, born in 1975, Parliamentary Assistant for a Member of Parliament in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Research fields: East Asian Politics, Chinese Politics, Communism in China.
Contact: sebastianburghof@yahoo.de
Kevin J. Callahan
Professor of History and Director of General Education at the University of Saint Joseph, Connecticut, USA. Research fields: International Socialism and Modern French
Identity. Recent Monograph: Demonstration Culture. European Socialism and the Second International 1889-1914, Kibworth 2010.
Contact: kjcallahan@usj.edu
Lev Centrih
Historian and sociologist, PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Research interest: history of radical social movements, Marxism-Leninism, theory of history, theory of ideology, epistemology of social sciences. Books: Marxism and Linguistics (2005, co-ed.), Uneventment of History. The Case of Yugoslavia (2008, co-ed.); Articles: The Stalinist Structure and its Reader (2005), On the Significance of the Communist Party of Slovenia during the Second World War and its Aftermath (2008), The Journal Perspektive and Socialist Self-Management in Slovenia: In Search of a New Anti-Stalinist Society. Towards a Materialist Survey of Communist Ideology (INCS, 2009).
Contact: levcentrih@hotmail.com
Álvaro Cúria
Graduated in Journalism (University of Coimbra) and Master in Political Communication (University of Porto). He has worked as a journalist in some of Portugal’s main media organizations. Abroad, he worked at the Research Unit at Greenpeace International Headquarters in Amsterdam. In the present, he is finishing the first year of his PhD, with the subject "Heirs of the Wall: A Comparative Analysis of the Public Reaction of Five Southern European Communist Parties to the Historical Events of 1989-1991" at the same university and working as a research fellow in the national subsidized project "New Media and Digital Campaigning" at the University of Porto.
Contact: alvarocuria@gmail.com
Aurelie Denoyer
PhD, born in 1981. Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany.
Research Fields: Migration Studies, Transnational Communist History.Recent Contribution:
Integration und Identität. Die spanischen politischen Flüchtlinge in der DDR. In: Kim Christian Priemel (Hg.): Transit-Transfer. Politik und Praxis der Einwanderung in der DDR (1945- 1990), Berlin 2011.
Contact: aurelie_denoyer@yahoo.fr
Jan Foitzik
Dr. phil., political scientist and historian. 1976-78 at the Institute for Contemporary History (Institut für Zeitgeschichte), Munich; 1978-93 at the University of Mannheim (Department for the History and Politics of the GDR); since 1994 at the Berlin branch of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich. Selected publications: Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933, München 1980-1983 (co-author); Zwischen den Fronten, Bonn 1986; Inventar der Befehle des Obersten Chefs der Sowjetischen Militäradministration in Deutschland (SMAD) 1945-1949 (Offene Serie), München 1995;
Sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland (SMAD) 1945-1949, Berlin 1999;
Entstalinisierungskrise in Ostmitteleuropa 1953-1956, Paderborn 2001 (co-editor); SMAD- Handbuch. Die Sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland 1945-1949, München 2009 (Russian edition: Sovetskaia voennaia administratsiia v Germanii 1945-1949. Spravochnik, Moskva 2009); Apparat NKVD-MGB v sovetskoj zone okkupatsii Germanii/GDR 1945—1953 gg. Sbornik dokumentov (with Nikita V. Petrov) (German edition: Die sowjetischen Geheimdienste in der SBZ/DDR von 1945 bis 1953, Berlin u.a. 2009).
Contact: foitzik@ifz-muenchen.de
Leo Goretti
PhD student at the University of Reading (UK), Department of Italian Studies. Research interests: New political history, history of Italian communism. Monograph: I “neri bianchi”.
Mezzadri di Greve in Chianti tra lotte sindacali e fuga dalle campagne, Roma 2008.
Contact: l.goretti@reading.ac.uk
Walter M. Iber
PhD, born in 1979; Research Associate at the Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for Research on War Consequences, Graz Austria. Research Fields: Austrian history in the 20th century, economic and social history, Soviet occupation of Austria. Recent Monograph: Die Sowjetische Mineralölverwaltung in Österreich. Zur Vorgeschichte der OMV 1945-1955, Innsbruck e.a. 2011.
Contact: walter.iber@bik.ac.at
Lazar Kheifets
Ph. D., Full Professor of the Saint-Petersburg State University (Chair of American Studies).
One of the main preoccupations since almost 35 years is his work for the scholarly exploitation and preservation of the archives on the history of the Left in Latin America, especially in the Russian State Archive on Social and Political History (RGASPI), the Russian State Archives and the Archives of the Ministry of Exterior of the Russian Federation. Author and Coauthor of more than 100 articles and six books, including the Biographical Dictionary of the Communist International in Latin America.
Contact: lazarjeifets@gmail.com
Victor Kheifets
Ph. D., Full Professor of the Saint-Petersburg State University (Chair of Theory and History of International Relations). Correspondent of the journals "Latinskaia Amerika" (Russian Academy of Sciences) and The International Newsletter of Communist Studies (INCS).
Member of the Editorial Council of the web journal "Izquierdas" (Chile). Publications contain more than 60 articles on the history of the Left in Latin America.
Contact: jeifets@gmail.com
Avgust Lešnik
PhD, born in 1951. Professor of Sociology and History of Social Movements at the Faculty of Arts (Department of Sociology), University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is member of the advisory board of the INCS and the editorial board of the Annals for Istrian and Mediterranean Studies. Books: Tito’s Party in the Struggle with Stalin’s Dogmatism; The Comintern; The Split in International Socialism 1914-1923; From Despotism to Democracy;
The Crisis of Social Ideas – A Festschrift for Marjan Britovšek (ed.).
Contact: Avgust.Lesnik@ff.uni-lj.si
Ottokar Luban
Born 1937, history teacher (retired) and historian. Research interests: History of the German workers movement, particularly Rosa Luxemburg and the Spartacus Group. Secretary of the International Rosa Luxemburg Association. Recent Monograph: Rosa Luxemburgs Demokratiekonzept, Leipzig 2008.
Contact: oluban@gmx.de
Constance Margain
PhD Candidate in Modern European History at Le Havre University and ZZF Potsdam. Her research fields include: History of the Profintern, Prosopography and Communist Resistance. Born in 1977, Margain has taught at various schools in France. She has been a Rosa Luxemburg Foundation scholarship holder since October 2010.
Contact: constancemargain@yahoo.fr
David Mayer
PhD, born in 1976. Historian at the University of Vienna. Main areas of interest: history of historiography, the history of Marxism, and the history of social movements. Recent edited volumes include: Friedrich Katz. Essays on the Life and Work of a Transnational Historian, Frankfurt am Main 2012 (with Martina Kaller and Berthold Molden); Weltwende 1968? Ein Jahr aus globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive, Wien 2008 (with Jens Kastner).
Contact: david.mayer@univie.ac.at
Jeff R. Meadowcroft
PhD. Born 1983. Studied for PhD at the Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK. Research fields: Russian working class; Russian revolutionary movement; socialist political thought; historiography; critical philosophy of history.
Contact: jeffmeadowcroft@yahoo.co.uk
Claudia Monteiro
Born in 1983. Master in History at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and PhD student in History at the Universidade Federal do Paraná. Research fields: Political History, communist militancy and the Brazilian Communist Party.
Contact: claudiahistoria@yahoo.com.br
Andreas Peglau
Born in 1957. Psychoanalyst in private practice in Berlin, Germany. He has authored a number of articles on a variety of psycho-social themes, among them some on the history of psychoanalysis in the Third Reich. He has now completed his PhD thesis with the title
“Politically Neutral Science? Wilhelm Reich and Psychoanalysis under National Socialism.”
Contact: ich.ev@t-online.de
Matthew Rendle
PhD, born 1977. Lecturer in History, University of Exeter, UK. Research fields: Revolutionary Russia, comparative histories of elites and the nobility. Recent Monograph: Defenders of the Motherland. The Tsarist Elite in Revolutionary Russia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Contact: M.Rendle@exeter.ac.uk
Klaus-Georg Riegel
Prof. Dr., born 1943. Professor of Sociology at the University of Trier (1988-2007). Main research: Sociology of culture, theories of modernisation, political religions. Selected publications on Marxism-Leninism as political religion: “Marxism-Leninism as a Political Religion” (Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 2005, 1, pp. 97-126); “Rituals of Confession within Communities of Virtuosi. An Interpretation of the Stalinist Criticism and Self-criticism in the Perspective of Max Weber’s Sociology of Religion” (Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 2000, 3, pp. 16-42); „Kaderbiographien in marxistisch-
leninistischen Virtuosengemeinschaften“ (Leviathan 1994, 1, pp. 17-46); Konfessionsrituale im Marxismus-Leninismus, Graz 1985.
Contact: riegel@uni-trier.de.
Alexander R. Schejngeit
PhD Student at the University of Konstanz, Faculty of History and Sociology. Research Fields: Transnational History, History of Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Media and Communication History. Publications on Soviet Foreign Policy.
Contact: schejngeit@googlemail.com.
Marcos Schiavi
PhD, born in 1979. Professor of Contemporary History at Buenos Aires University. Research fields: Latin American unions in the 20th century.
Contact: schiavimarcos@gmail.com
Uwe Sonnenberg
M.A., born in 1976. Center of Contemporary History (ZZF) Potsdam, Germany. Writes a PhD thesis on German left-wing booksellers in the 1970s. Research fields: History of European left-wing movements, German-German and German-Russian history of the 20th Century.
Contact: Uwe.Sonnenberg@web.de
Andreas Stergiou
Born in 1974. Historian and Political Scientist. Department for Political Science of the University of Crete; Visiting Professor at the Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece.
Contact: snandreas@hotmail.com
Jonathan Waterlow
DPhil (PhD) candidate, Oxford University. Stipendiary Lecturer in History, New College, Oxford. Research fields: Soviet interwar popular opinion, humour, and social structures.
Forthcoming article: 'Intimating Trust: Popular Opinion in Stalin's 1930s', 'Cultural and Social History' (2013).
Contact: jonathan.waterlow@history.ox.ac.uk
Jan Willem Waterböhr
BA (History, Computer Sience 2010), born 1985, student at the University of Bielfeld (History - Master of Arts). Research fields: Late medival culture and religion, modern radical movements in Germany. Recent article: „Geschichts-Informatiker - Eine neue Chance für Archive?“ (Archivmitteilungen 2009, 19).
Contact: jwaterboehr@uni-bielefeld.de
Frank Wolff
Dr. des. Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Osnabrück University, Modern History / Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies. He is currently working on a book on the social history of German-German migration, 1961-1989. He wrote his dissertation at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Bielefeld University, and as a Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. His book on the transnational history of the Jewish Labor Bund is about to be published in 2013. He also is working on a monograph on global Jewish migration during the interwar period, is co-editor of www.bundism.net, and review editor of the journal “East European Jewish Affairs“. Recent publication: “Eastern Europe Abroad. Exploring Actor-Network in Transnational Movements. The Case of the
‘Bund’.” (International Review of Social History 2012, 2, pp. 229-255).
Contact: wolff.fra@gmail.com
Bernhard H. Bayerlein
Dr. phil., Historian and Romanist, 2001-2011 Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, since 2009 Associate Researcher, Center of Contemporary History (ZZF) Potsdam. Research interests: European Communist studies, Regional studies on Spain and Portugal, Comparative politics, Archival Work and preservation of the archives of Communism. Publications in Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Portugal, including The Archives of Jules Humbert-Droz (1983-2001), The Dimitrov Diaries (2000), The Cyphered Comintern Telegrammes (2003), The German October 1923 (2004), „The Traitor, Stalin, is you!“ The End of Left Solidarity 1939-1941 (in Russian and German).
Coeditor Jahrbuch für historische Kommunismusforschung, Berlin, Editor The International Newsletter of Communist Studies. Editorial Council member: Twentieth Century Communism, London, American Communist History, Washington, Archivos de la historia del Movimento obrero y la izquierda, Buenos Aires.
Contact: bayerlein@zzf-pdm.de
Gleb J. Albert
M.A., born in 1981. Studied history and Slavonic philology in Cologne and Kraków.
Participated in several documentary edition projects at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research. Currently writes a PhD thesis on “Representations and Practices of Revolutionary Internationalism in Early Soviet Society, 1917-1927” as a scholarship holder at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Bielefeld University. Junior editor of the International Newsletter of Communist Studies. Recent publications: "From 'World Soviet' to 'Fatherland of All Proletarians.' Anticipated World Society and Global Thinking in Early Soviet Russia" (InterDisciplines 2012, 1, pp. 85-119); "‘German October is Approaching’.
Internationalism, Activists, and the Soviet State in 1923." (Revolutionary Russia 2011, 2, pp.
111-142).
Contact: gleb.albert@uni-bielefeld.de.
