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Title: Collection of Socialist and Labor Movement Pamphlets and Books
Date (inclusive): 1886-1962
Collection number: 932
Extent: 42 boxes (21 linear ft.)
Abstract: The collection consists of 2816 pamphlets and books on twentieth century socialist and labor movements around the world, with
particular emphasis on communist, socialist, and collectivist political parties and organizations in the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, United Kingdom, and United States of America.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
The collection consists of 2816 pamphlets and books on twentieth century socialist and labor movements around the world, with
particular emphasis on communist, socialist, and collectivist political parties and organizations in the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, United Kingdom, and United States of America. Major subjects include the Russian Revolution, the rise of fascism,
World Wars I and II, colonial revolutions, Marxist theory, the Cold War, and labor unions and workers' rights. Prominent authors
include Earl Browder, Daniel De Leon, Eugene Dennis, Friedrich Engels, William Z. Foster, Nikita Khrushchev, Vladimir Lenin,
Vyacheslav Molotov, Scott Nearing, Harry Pollitt, Joseph Stalin, Norman Thomas, and Leon Trotsky, and other significant socialist
theorists, leaders, and organizations. Notable items include 30 illustrated Soviet pamphlets distributed at the 1939 New York
World's Fair, a large number of texts by publishers Twentieth Century Press and Clarion Press in England, and Charles H. Kerr
& Co., Appeal to reason, and the IWW in the United States.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Socialism--Archival resources.
A Collection of material about the Communist Party in the United States and Southern California, 1952-1971 (Collection 1120)
. Available at the Department of Special Collections, UCLA.
Weintraub (Hyman) and Goldberg (William) Collection of Socialist Party Material (Collection 831)
. Available at the Department of Special Collections, UCLA.
A collection of underground, alternative and extremist literature, 1900-1990 (Collection 50)
. Available at the Departmentof Special Collections, UCLA.