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Title: Charles Wesley Ervin collection
Dates: 1927-1973
Collection Number: 97049
Collector: Ervin, Charles Wesley, collector.
Collection Size:
3 manuscript boxes, 1 microfilm box
(1.3 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Internal bulletins, minutes, other internal documents, pamphlets, and serial issues, issued by Trotskyist organizations in
India, Sri Lanka, the United States and elsewhere, and by the International Secretariat for the Fourth International, relating
to international Trotskyism. Includes some minutes of the Workers (Communist) Party of the United States.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In
Mainly in English
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Charles Wesley Ervin collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
The Hoover Institution Archives acquired the collection form Charles Wesley Ervin in 1997, with subsequent increments following.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Charles Wesley Ervin Collection consists of internal documents and publications of Trotskyist and Trotskyist-related organizations.
It is especially strong in issuances of Trotskyist organizations in India and to a lesser extent Sri Lanka, and was used as
research material for the book by Charles Wesley Ervin,
Tomorrow Is Ours: Trotskyism in India and Ceylon, 1935-48 (Colombo, 2006). The collection also contains rare issuances from Trotskyist groups in the United States, especially early
splinter groups from the Socialist Workers Party and its predecessors. There are also minutes and other internal documents
of the Workers (Communist) Party from 1927-1928, just before the party's expulsion of the pioneering American Trotskyists.
Completing the collection are rare issuances from the 1930s of the international movement for the Fourth International and
single items from British and German Trotskyist groups of this period.
The collection is arranged as a single series by country of issuing organization. Issuances of the international organization
of the Fourth International movement precede those of national parties.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Communism.
Communism--United States.
Communism--Great Britain.
Communism--Germany.
Fourth International.
Communist Party of the United States of America.