"Boxing and Power Struggle: Bukharin Versus Stalin" is no. 57 in the PERSA series ...

"Forging Success: Soviet Managers and False Accounting, 1943 to 1962" is no. 56 in the PERSA series ...

Political Economy Research in Soviet Archives has a new Russian-language mirror, hosted by the New Economic School, Moscow. Our thanks go to Andrei Markevich, whose hard work has created it.

Listen to Mark Harrison talking about Guns and Rubles: the Defense Industry in the Stalinist State, the first book in the new Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War, in three short podcasts now available from the University of Warwick: The Soviet Military-Industrial Complex (Feb. 23, 2009), Stalin, Defence, and Secrecy (Feb. 12, 2009), and Stalin and the Uses of Terror (Feb. 5, 2009). 

We are sad to report that James R. Millar died on Sunday, November 30, 2008. President Beth Holmgren of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies has placed the following announcement on the AAASS website: