International Institute of Social History
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Information for Authority record
Name (Latin)
International Institute of Social History
Other forms of name
International Institute for Social History
IISG (International Institute for Social History)
Internationaal Instituut Voor Sociale Geschiedenis (Amsterdam)
Internationales Institut fuer Sozialgeschichte (Amsterdam)
Amsterdam. International Institute for Social History
I.I.S.G. (International Institute for Social History)
Associated country
Netherlands
Field of activity
Social history
Associated Language
eng
Sources of Information
- International review for social history, 1936-
- Die Früchte des Zorns, 1993:Bd. 1, t.p. (Internationales Institut für Sozialgeschichte, Berlin, Amsterdam)
- Iz istorii russkoĭ ėmigrat︠s︡ii, 1995:t.p. (Mezhdunarodnyĭ institut sot︠s︡ialʹnoĭ istorii (Amsterdam)) p. 14 (MISI)
- The GULAG press, 1920-1937, 2000:t.p. (International Institute for Social History (IISH), Amsterdam)
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Wikipedia description:
The International Institute of Social History (IISH/IISG) is one of the largest archives of labor and social history in the world. Located in Amsterdam, its one million volumes and 2,300 archival collections include the papers of major figures and institutions in radical leftist thought. The IISH was founded in 1935 by Nicolaas Posthumus as an independent scientific institute. It is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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