Inventory of the Charles Curtiss papers
Finding aid prepared by Irena Czernichowska
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Charles Curtiss papers
Date (inclusive): 1938-1987
Collection Number: 87036
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and Spanish
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box
(0.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, notes, minutes, reports, resolutions, and printed matter, relating to internal divisions within
the Mexican section of the Fourth International, Fourth International activities elsewhere, relations between Leon Trotsky
and Diego Rivera, and theoretical debates in Trotskyist and social democratic circles.
Creator:
Curtiss, Charles, 1908-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1987.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Charles Curtiss papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical/Historical Note
American Trotskyist and subsequently socialist; Fourth International representative, Mexico, 1938-1939.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, writings, notes, minutes, reports, resolutions, and printed matter, relating to internal divisions within
the Mexican section of the Fourth International, Fourth International activities elsewhere, relations between Leon Trotsky
and Diego Rivera, and theoretical debates in Trotskyist and social democratic circles.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Communism -- Mexico
Communism -- United States
Socialism -- United States
Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940
Fourth International
Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
"Documents and Records of a Representative of the Fourth International In Mexico" created and collected by Charles Curtiss
1938-1940
Language of Material: English.
box 1, folder 1
"Reorganizing the Mexican Section of the Fourth International"
1939
box 1, folder 2
"The Break with Diego Rivera"
1938-1940
box 1, folder 4
"Plenum of the National Committee" minutes
1938 Nov. 19-20
box 1, folder 3
"Pan-American (Latin American, etc.) Bureau of the IV International" minutes
1938 Nov 8
box 1, folder 5
"Documents of the Fouth International and its affiliates and individuals in Europe and Latin America"
1938-1941
box 1, folder 6
Alexander, Robert J. (Professor of Rutgers University on Mexican Section of the Fourth International) correspondence
1969-1971
box 1, folder 7
Allen, Naomi (Pathfinder Press) correspondence
1973
box 1, folder 8
"An appraisal of Leon Trotsky," undated
box 1, folder 9
"Diego Rivera's Stand of 48 Years Ago Debated"
1986-1987
box 1, folder 10
"Notes on the history of labor in Mexico since the overthrow of Porfirio Diaz, especially on Partido Liberal Mexicano and
the Flores Magon brothers; articles and writings on the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA),"
1908-1921
box 1, folder 11
"Leon Trotsky and the Mexico of Cardenas, 50th Anniversary, Days of Commemoration"
1987
box 1, folder 12
Articles from various periodicals on socialist democracy, dictatorship of the proletariat, and Leninism
1985-1987
