Socialist Historians Bibliography
David Berry
Areas of interest include: the Left and the labour movement in 20th century, particularly anarchism; working on a biography of Daniel Guérin.
Authored book:
A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917-1945 (Westview, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002).
Edited book:
With A.G. Hargreaves (eds.), Women in Twentieth Century French History and Culture: Papers in Memory of Andrea Cady (Loughborough: European Research Centre, 1993).
Contributions to edited works:
‘The other Popular Front: French anarchism and the Front révolutionnaire’, in Martin Alexander & Helen Graham (eds.), The French and Spanish Popular Fronts: Comparative Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp.131-44.
‘Solidarité internationale antifasciste: Les anarchistes français et la guerre civile d’Espagne’ in Jean Sagnes and Sylvie Caucanas (eds.), Les Français et la Guerre d’Espagne(Perpignan: Centre de Recherche sur les Problèmes de la Frontière, Université de Perpignan, 1990), pp.73-88.
‘Voline et la Fédération anarchiste française face à la guerre civile d’Espagne’, in Sylvain Boulouque (ed.), Itinéraire. Une Vie, Une Pensée: Voline (1995), pp.52-60.
‘Resistance and Collaboration: the French Anarchist Movement 1939-1945’ in Andreas Graf (ed.), Anarchisten gegen Hitler (Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2001), pp.29-55.
‘Charles Ridel et la revue Révision (1938-1939)’, in Berry, D., Bertolo, A., Boulouque, S., Casoar, P., Enckell, M. and Jacquier, C., Présence de Louis Mercier (Lyon: Atelier de création libertaire, Collection commune mémoire, 1999), pp 37-49.
Academic journal papers:
‘L’anarchisme français et la révolution espagnole, 1936-1939’, in 1886...1936 et quelques autres anniversaires, Bulletin du Centre International de Recherche sur l’Anarchisme (Marseille) no.26/27 (1er semestre 1986), pp.85-91
‘French Anarchists in Spain, 1936-1939’, in French History vol.3 no.4 (December 1989), pp.427-65.
‘The Anarchist Press in France Today’, Anarchist Studies, 1(1), 1993, pp 39-45.
‘Chevènement, Rigout, Krivine, et al: Salade (re)composée, or New Left in the making?’, French Politics and Society, 11(3), 1993, pp 12-33.
‘Paradigms Lost? Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations in Europe in the 1990s’, editorial introduction to thematic issue of Journal of Area Studies, (5), 1994, pp 8-16.
Dossier (edited, annotated & introduced):A gauche de la gauche - Towards an alternative left?’, Modern and Contemporary France, NS2(1), 1994, pp 123-130.
‘Revolution(s)’, editorial introduction to thematic issue of Journal of Area Studies no.13, 1998, pp.8-11.
“Fascism or Revolution!’ Anarchism and Antifascism in France, 1933-39’ in Contemporary European History vol.8, no.1, 1999, pp.51-71.
‘Luttes de classement, luttes de classe’, editorial introduction to thematic issue of Journal of European Area Studies vol.9, no.2 (November 2001), pp.159-62 (with Jeremy Leaman).
Articles/chapters published on the web:
On the Research on Anarchism site
http://melior.univ-montp3.fr/ra_forum/en/berry_david/index_e.html
“Fascism or Revolution!’ Anarchism and Antifascism in France, 1933-39.’
‘French Anarchist Volunteers in Spain, 1936-1939: Contribution to a Collective Biography of the French Anarchist Movement’ [including appendices cut from paper version].
Translations (from French):
Bernard Lepetit, ‘For a Limited Interdisciplinarity’, Journal of Area Studies, 1(1), September 1992, pp 9-16.
E.M. Lipiansky, ‘Reflections on the Notion of the Intercultural’, Journal of Area Studies, (2), 1993, pp 7-11.
Samir Amin, ‘The Empire of Chaos? Europe, the South and the ‘New World Order”, Journal of Area Studies, (4), 1994, pp 21-29.
Alain Lattard, ‘German Trade Unionism since the Crisis: Gradual Erosion’, Journal of Area Studies, (5), 1994, pp 47-62.
Forthcoming
Journal articles
‘Le mouvement anarchiste français et la ‘question féminine’ sous la IIIe République’ in Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine
‘La Révolution (française) et nous - Daniel Guérin historien de la révolution et militant révolutionnaire’ in Agone(2002?).
‘‘Résistance et collaboration: le mouvement anarchiste français, 1939-1945’ in Dissidences (Bulletin de liaison des études sur les mouvements révolutionnaires), 2003.
Chapters:
‘‘Like a wisp of straw amidst the raging elements.’ Daniel Guérin in the Second World War’ in Simon Kitson and Hanna Diamond (eds.), Individuals and communities at war. Festschrift in Honour of H. R. Kedward(Berg, 2002?).
‘French Anarchist Volunteers in Spain, 1936-1939: Contribution to a Collective Biography of the French Anarchist Movement’ in Jean Batou (ed.),Entre Solidarité et Politique du Komintern: les Brigades Internationales (Lausanne?).
‘”Workers of the world, embrace!”. Daniel Guérin, the labour movement and homosexuality,’ in Gabriella Hauch (ed.), Sexuality, the Working Classes and Labour Movements, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference of Labour and Social History, Linz, 12-14 September 2002.
Work in Progress
Single-authored books:
Fire in the Blood. A Personal and Political Biography of Daniel Guérin, 1904-1988.
Anarchism, Syndicalism and the Bolshevik Challenge, 1917-26(including Vilkens, Six Months in Russia, translated from French, introduced and annotated).
Journal articles:
‘Daniel Guérin’s relations with Trotsky and the early trotskyist movement, and his developing critique of classical marxism’ (possibly for Left History or Anarchist Studies).
‘Daniel Guerin’s engagement with ‘sexology’ from the 1950’s and his contribution to the theorization of gender and sexuality from a historical materialist perspective’ (commissioned for special issue of Historical Materialism on sexuality, ed. Paul Reynolds).
Dictionary entries:
‘Daniel Guérin’ and ‘Georges Fontenis’ in Claude Pennetier (ed.), Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français (Paris: Editions ouvrières), Cinquième partie: 1939-1968.
Web site:
Class Struggles in France. Labour and the Left from 1789 to the Present, a web-based materials archive and hopefully ultimately an e-journal.
Many of the publications listed in this bibliography can be obtained from Bookmarks, the TUC and Socialist online book service