"Memoirs of a Lifelong Communist," by Erwin Marquit, PART II

Memoirs of a Lifelong Communist, 2014

In the early 1990s, when I had just arrived in the USA, I learned that one of the professors in our Department, Erwin Marquit, was a lifelong communist. Once at a faculty dinner he tried to explain to me that the Soviet way of life was way superior to that in the US in each and every respect because of the guiding Idea. He would not listen to my objec tions. Erwin Marquit died in 2015. He left recollections "Memoirs of a Lifelong Communist," which for a few years were posted on his personal web-site, http://www.tc.umn.edu/marqu002/memoirs.html but then the personal web-sites of this type were retired by the University of Minnesota. I could not find its replacement. If you want to understand, at least approximately, the mindset of such people and the degree of ideological indoctrination, I advise you to read the manuscript below. I managed to copy a draft from the above personal web-site before its retirement. This is Part I.

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. The Newsletter of the Newsletters: Communist Studies Newsletters -New issues/ Selected Items H-HOAC (Washington D.C.) • Aufarbeitung Aktuell (Berlin) • ICCEES Newsletter (Münster) • NewsNet (Philadelphia) • Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft Mitteilungen (Vienna) • Mitteilungen des FABGAB (Berlin) • Georgian Archival Bulletin (Tbilisi) .

Science &amp Society

Review Jane Lazarre, The Communist and the Communist's Daughter - A Memoir page 13-19 Twentieth Century Communism - Issue 14

American Communist History, 2006

The subject of this bibliography is the scholarly literature of communist history. For the USA coverage is extensive. For the rest of the Anglophone world coverage is selective, while coverage for the rest of the world is more selective still. Coverage of the former and presently communist countries is largely limited to works dealing with the Communist parties of those countries. Anti-communism is covered selectively, with somewhat more emphasis on its interaction with communism than its nature as a movement/ideology per se. Coverage of related topics, i.e. the labor movement, Marxism, other strains of radicalism, etc., is highly selective and limited to items directly relevant to communism. For coverage of current reportage (newspapers, news weeklies, journals of opinion, Internet/WWW discussion lists, etc.) see the Newsletter of the Historians of American Communism and the Historians of American Communism Discussion List

American Communist History, 2007

The subject of this bibliography is the scholarly literature of communist history. For the USA coverage is extensive. For the rest of the Anglophone world coverage is selective, while coverage for the rest of the world is more selective still. Coverage of the formerly and presently communist countries is largely limited to works dealing with the communist parties of those countries. Anticommunism is covered selectively, with somewhat more emphasis on its interaction with communism than its nature as a movement/ideology per se. Coverage of related topics, e.g. the labor movement, Marxism, other strains of radicalism, etc., is highly selective and limited to items directly relevant to communism. For coverage of current reportage (newspapers, news weeklies, journals of opinion, Internet/World Wide Web discussion lists, etc.) see the Historians of American Communism Discussion List

Like most people on our side, I had internalized oppression. The [Berlin] Wall was already inside me, the bricks and mortar of my eleven-year-old self. The Wall wasn't a place or even a symbol any more. It was a collective state of mind, and there is something cosy, something reassuring in all things collective.

2010

The International Bibliography of Journal Articles on Communist Studies. Issue 2009. Internationale Artikelbibliographie der historischen Kommunismusforschung. Bibliographie internationale d'articles concernant la recherches sur le communisme. Compiled by Gleb J. Albert and Bernhard H. Bayerlein (With contributions from Kostis Karpozilos and others) This bibliography is an attempt to bundle articles on the history of Communism and related topics published during the year 2009 in scientific journals and serials worldwide. The items are sorted by journal titles and issues. In case a journal published less than two articles on the relevant topics during 2009, these articles are listed under "Other journals". We have tried to make the citations as complete as possible, yet in some cases it was not possible to retrieve the page numbers. 708 journal contributions on the history of Communism and related topics have been investigated and retrieved for the year 2009, yet we are...