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Notebooks for study and research (NSR)
[ISSN 0298-7902]
and
Cahier(s) d’étude et de recherche (CER)
[ISSN 0298-7899]

Notebooks for study and research (NSR, for short) is the title of a (monographic) series which has been issued by the IIRE, the International Institute of Research and Education, featured elsewhere on our TrotskyanaNet site, a research and educational centre closely affiliated with the Fourth International and located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; e-mail: iire@antenna.nl.
Publishing of this series began in 1986, and as of 2004 32 issues have been published – with a scope ranging from some 30 to some 170 pages and varying in format (most have been published in A4 format).
The authors or editors are fellows of the IIRE, almost all are (or, were) long-time members or close sympathizers of the Fourth International led by Ernest Mandel. Most issues of the series are at the same time part of one of the three following unnumbered series: lectures series (edited transcripts of classes given under the auspices of the IIRE or other institutions, including appendices and supplementary reading material), studies series (systematic studies of either a particular experience in a given country or a particular theme), or documents and debates series (collections of documents, articles and interviews designed to update a controversial question. Please note that most issues have been published in parallel editions (English and French), the French editions bearing the series title Cahier(s) d’étude et de recherche (CER for short) (see below); however, some titles were published only in the English-language or in the French-language series. A few items were published in German, too, with series title Studienhefte des Internationalen Instituts für Forschung und Schulung (ISSN 0935-3119). Booklets for which a price is given in our Notebooks listing below are still available from IIRE, Willemsparkweg 202, 1071 HW Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Since 1998 (no. 27/28) the Notebooks for study and research series has been published in collaboration with Pluto Press, London, e-mail: pluto@plutobks.demon.co.uk.


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Working papers of the International Institute
of Research and Education
= Documents de travail de l’Institut International
de Recherche et de la Formation
= Documentos de trabajo del Instituto Internacional
de Investigación y Formación

Working Papers of the International Institute for Research and Education (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, no ISSN) is the title of a monographic series issued by IIRE which began in 1988; until 1997 33 issues were published, chiefly in English, some in French and one in Spanish. Most issues are bearing parallel titles. The series is designed to announce works in progress and circulate early drafts and materials, presenting in particular reworked transcripts of oral educational reports. The studies presented in this format generally retain an unfinished character. The scope of the issues varies, the format is A4.


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Quaderni del Centro Studi Pietro Tresso

In March 1986 the Centro Studi Pietro Tresso (CSPT, Pietro Tresso Study Centre, located at Foligno, later at Florence) launched two numbered series of the magazine Quaderni del Centro Pietro Tresso [Notebooks of the CSPT], called "Dagli archivi del bolscevismo" ["From the archives of Bolshevism"] and "Studi e ricerche" ["Studies and researches"], each issue of them being monographic and bearing a distinct title.
When both Quaderni series ceased publication in July 1996, 19 and 40 issues respectively had been issued altogether. In September 1996 a new one-sigle series of the magazine started, called Quaderni Pietro Tresso, which was just a continuation of the two previous series, with one relevant change: any reference to the study centre had been dropped since in Summer 1996 the CSPT eventually had been dissolved because of several legal and political reasons.
The director of all three series has been Paolo Casciola, the moving spirit of the CSPT and the magazine and an outstanding activist and historian of Italian Trotskyism from the mid-1970s. The very majority of the Quaderni issues have been either written or translated, annotated or otherwise edited by Casciola who is fluent in various European languages. A good portion of the Quaderni can be regarded as very valuable source or relevant study material relating to the history of Trotskyism in general and to Italian Trotskyism during the 1930-50s and its protagonists in particular. A considerable part of the Quaderni, however, has also dealt with non-Trotskyist subjects, and a "literary sub-series" has been started in 2000 (novels and poems by Panait Istrati, Victor Serge, Benjamin Péret and Ernst Toller). Some issues of the Quaderni have also been featuring reprints of old and rare publications of the workers movement (e.g., a reprint of all the journals and bulletins published by the Italian Trotskyists in 1934-36, or of archival material relating to the so-called "Barta group" from its origins in 1935 to 1950), several writings of Leon Trotsky previously unpublished in Italian or memorial issues devoted to deceased Trotskyist and non-Trotskyist activists (e.g., Jeannine Morel, Jacques Ramboz, Sadik Premtaj, Arturo Peregalli, Louis Rigaudias, Rodolphe Prager, etc.)
The format of the Quaderni is 20.5x28.5 cm, the number of pages varies between 12 and 88. While most Quaderni volumes are in Italian language, a considerable part of them is in French, some are bilingual (French/Italian, Spanish/French) and one is in Russian.
Almost all issues are still available (as of March 2005). The Quaderni Pietro Tresso are published by Edizioni Bi-Elle in Florence (the two precursor series were published by CSPT in Foligno). Orders and enquiries should be addressed to Paolo Casciola, CP 154, 50100 Firenze (Florence), Italy; e-mail: p.casciola@tiscalinet.it

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Quaderni Pietro Tresso

In addition to the two Quaderni series mentioned above, some smaller booklets have been published by CSPT from which the following are of special interest to Trotskyana research:

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Cuadernos : revista del Centro de Estudios,
Investigaciones y Publicaciones 'León Trotsky'

The journal Cuadernos : revista del Centro de Estudios, Investigaciones y Publicaciones 'León Trotsky' de Argentina has been published in Buenos Aires by the C.E.I.P. [featured within the chapter Research Facilities : Research Centres and Working Archives of our TrotskyanaNet], an unaffiliated study and research centre set up by Argentine scholars and adherents of various currents of Argentine Trotskyism in 1998. The first issue was published in 2001; as of mid-2004, 3 numbers have been issued. Some articles published in Cuadernos are also available on-line,  within the framework of C.E.I.P.’s website. Director of this publication is Christian Castillo. No information is provided relating to subscription price and ordering.

W. Lubitz
last rev. Sept. 2009


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