International Institute of Social History

The International Institute for Social History ( International Institute of Social History, short IISH, by Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis Dutch ) is a historical research institute in Amsterdam (North Holland). It was founded in 1935 by Nicolaas Posthumus and is part of the " Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences ' ( KNAW ). Institute is headed by the Director General Erik -Jan Zürcher.

Crucially, the documents of the social movements, particularly those of the workers' movement, a safe place should be given after Germany in 1933 failed, and the Soviet Union was especially true with regard to socialist alternative concepts as untrusted.

The Institute is one of the world's largest documentation centers on the social history. In addition to the most comprehensive collection of the manuscripts of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the IISH cared for, inter alia, Estates of Albert Grzesinski, Clara Gertrude Wichmann, Willy chicken, Karl Kautsky, Helmut Rüdiger, Christiaan Cornelissen, Gustav Mayer, Julius Motteler, Augustin Souchy, Georg von Vollmar, Friedrich Adler, Arthur Müller- Lehning, Max Nettlau, Pierre Ramus, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Angelika Balabanoff, Leon Trotsky ( partial estate, 6 linear feet ), Wolfgang Abendroth, Heinrich Hannover, Wolfgang Harich, Kurt Steinhaus, Anton Levien Constandse, Rob Stolk and the Party Archive of the Russian social Revolutionaries. Well represented are the discounts anarchist and Trotskyist fought in Spain. The archives of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( 214 linear meters ) is also located in the IISH.

The IISH directed the bi -annual European Social Science History Conference from. In addition, the Institute is a member of the International Association of Labour History Institutions and home to the office this umbrella organization. Is the Dutch Persmuseum ( Press Museum ) on the back of the IISH.

In cooperation with the IISH, the University Library of the University of Amsterdam ( UvA ), the Persmuseum (Dutch Press Museum ), the NIOD and the Katholiek Documentatiecentrum ( "Catholic Documentation Centre ", KDC ), a collection of magazines from the period 1896-1949 together with a total of 15,238 pages.

Publications

The IISH gives the journals International Review of Social History (in cooperation with Cambridge University Press), Social'naja istorija. Ezhegodnik, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis and Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis out.