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Title: Joseph Hansen Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1887-1980.
Collection Number: 92035
Creator: Hansen, Joseph, 1910-1979.
Collection Size:
109 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 envelopes, 1 phonotape cassette
(45.8 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, minutes, reports, internal bulletins,
resolutions, theses, printed matter, sound recording, and photographs, relating to Leon
Trotsky, activities of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States, and activities
of the Fourth International in Latin America, Western Europe and elsewhere.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research but may not be photocopied.
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], Joseph Hansen Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1992.
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.
Also available on microfilm (127 reels).
Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940.
Fourth International.
Communism.
Socialism.
Socialist Workers Party.
Communism--United States.
Communism--Latin America.
Communism--Europe.
Socialism--United States.
Socialism--Latin America.
Socialism--Europe.
United States--Politics and government.
Latin America.
Europe.
Journalists.
Phonotapes.
| 1910 June 16 | Born, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 1928-1934 | Attended University of Utah part-time |
| 1931 | Married Reba Hooper |
| 1934 | Joined Communist League of America (predecessor of Socialist Workers Party) |
| 1936-1937 | Staff writer, Voice of the Federation (Maritime Federation of the Pacific), and Labor Action |
| 1937-1940 | Secretary to Leon Trotsky, Coyoacan, Mexico |
| 1939 | Author, Father Coughlin: Fascist Demagogue |
| 1940 | Author, Wall Street's War, Not Ours! |
| 1940-1975 | Member, National Committee, Socialist Workers Party |
| 1941-1945 | Merchant seaman |
| 1944 | Author, American Workers Need a Labor Party |
| 1945-1954 | Staff writer, The Militant (newspaper of Socialist Workers Party) |
| 1946 | Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Senate, New York |
| 1948 | National lecture tour on "The Struggle for Power in Europe" |
| Author, The Socialist Workers Party: What It Is, What It Stands For | |
| 1950 | Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Senate, New York |
| 1951 | National lecture tour on "America and the World Crisis" |
| 1954 | Editor, The Militant |
| 1955-1959 | Editor, International Socialist Review (theoretical journal of Socialist Workers Party) |
| 1957 | Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Los Angeles National lecture tour on "The Outlook for Socialist Regroupment" |
| 1959-1967 | Editor, The Militant |
| 1960 | Visit to Cuba |
| Founding member, Fair Play for Cuba Committee | |
| Author, Too Many Babies? The Myth of the Population Explosion | |
| Author, The Truth about Cuba | |
| 1961 | Attended Conferencia Latinoamericana por la Soberania Nacional, la Emancipacion Economica y la Paz, Mexico City |
| Author, In Defense of the Cuban Revolution: An Answer to the State Department and Theodore Draper | |
| 1961-1962 | Four-month tour of Latin America |
| 1962 | National lecture tour on "What Makes Latin America Explosive" |
| Visit to Algeria | |
| Author, The Theory of the Cuban Revolution | |
| Author, Trotskyism and the Cuban Revolution: An Answer to Hoy | |
| 1962-1965 | Socialist Workers Party representative in Europe, based in Paris |
| 1963 | Attended 7th (Reunification) World Congress of Fourth International |
| 1963-1979 | Fraternal member, United Secretariat of Fourth International Editor, Intercontinental Press (originally entitled World Outlook; published on behalf of United Secretariat of Fourth International, at first in Paris and later in New York City) |
| 1965 | Co-author, Khrushchev's Downfall/New Deepening of the Sino-Soviet Rift? |
| 1966 | Editor, Healy "Reconstructs" the Fourth International: Documents and Comments by Participants in a Fiasco |
| 1967 | Attended Organizacion Latinoamericana de Solidaridad conference, Havana |
| Co-author, Behind China's "Great Cultural Revolution" | |
| 1968 | Co-author, Murder in Memphis: Martin Luther King and the Future of the Black Liberation Struggle |
| Co-author, The Nature of the Cuban Revolution: Record of a Controversy, 1960-1963 | |
| Co-author, Revolt in France, May-June 1968: A Contemporary Record | |
| 1969 | Attended 9th World Congress of Fourth International |
| Co-author, Class, Party and State and the Eastern European Revolution | |
| Co-author, The Invasion of Czechoslovakia | |
| Co-author, Leon Trotsky: The Man and His Work: Reminiscences and Appraisals | |
| 1972 | Author, The Abern Clique |
| Co-author, Nixon's Moscow and Peking Summits: Their Meaning for Vietnam | |
| Co-author, A Revolutionary Strategy for the 70s: Documents of the Socialist Workers Party | |
| 1973-1977 | Fraternal member, Steering Committee, Leninist-Trotskyist Faction of Fourth International |
| 1974 | Attended 10th World Congress of Fourth International |
| Author, The Workers and Farmers Government | |
| Co-author, Towards a History of the Fourth International | |
| Editor, Marxism vs. Ultraleftism: The Record of Healy's Break with Trotskyism | |
| 1975 ff. | Target of accusation campaign by Workers Revolutionary Party (Great Britain) and Workers League (U.S.) |
| 1976 | Co-author, The Fight against Fascism in the USA: Forty Years of Struggle Described by Participants |
| Co-author, Healy's Big Lie: The Slander Campaign against Joseph Hansen, George Novack, and the Fourth International | |
| Co-author, What Is American Fascism? Writings on Father Coughlin, Mayor Frank Hague, and Senator Joseph McCarthy | |
| 1978 | Author, Dynamics of the Cuban Revolution: The Trotskyist View |
| 1979 January 18 | Died, New York City |
| 1979 | Author, The Leninist Strategy of Party Building: The Debate on Guerrilla Warfare in Latin America (published posthumously) |
| 1980 | Author, James P. Cannon the Internationalist (published posthumously) |
| 1986 | Co-author, Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women (published posthumously) |