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Title: Bertram David Wolfe papers,
Date (inclusive): 1903-1999
Collection Number: 77029
Creator:
Wolfe, Bertram David, 1896-1977
Collection Size:
179 manuscript boxes, 2 card file boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 35 envelopes, 6 microfilm reels, 5 videotape cassettes, 13 phonotape
reels, 8 phonotape cassettes.
(84 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, notes, memoranda, clippings, other printed matter, and audiovisual material, relating to Marxism;
the international communist movement; communism in the Soviet Union, the United States, and elsewhere; literature and art
in the Soviet Union and in Mexico; and the Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Includes some papers of Rivera, and papers of Ella
Wolfe, wife of Bertram D. Wolfe. Materials in the increment consist largely of correspondence, writings, and printed matter
added to the collection by Bertram D. Wolfe's widow, Ella Wolfe, in the years following his death in 1977. Additional items
became part of the papers after Ella Wolfe's death in 2000. Much of the incremental materials pertain to Bertram Wolfe's
career as a critic and historian of Marxism and Soviet communism, as well as his work as a biographer of Diego Rivera. They
also document Ella Wolfe's role as her husband's collaborator and caretaker of his legacy, while showing her as a personality
in her own right with a wide network of friends and correspondents. Phonotape cassette dubs of some sound recordings also
available
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Box 183 closed; use copies available in box 12.
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], Register of the Bertram D. Wolfe Papers Incremental Materials, [Box number], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives between 1977 and 2000.
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 Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
[Identification of item], Bertram David Wolfe papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution
Archives.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Communist International.
Communist Party of the United States of America.
Art--Mexico.
Communism.
Communism--United States.
Communism and culture.
Russian literature.
Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939.
Soviet Union--Politics and government.
Mexico
Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, 1870-1924.
Videotapes
Phonotapes
Wolfe, Ella.
Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957.
Scope and Content of Collection
Writings, correspondence, notes, memoranda, clippings, other printed matter, and audiovisual material, relating to Marxism;
the international communist movement; communism in the Soviet Union, the United States, and elsewhere; literature and art
in the Soviet Union and in Mexico; and the Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Includes some papers of Rivera, and papers of Ella
Wolfe, wife of Bertram D. Wolfe.
Scope and Content of the Incremental Materials
The materials in the increment consist largely of correspondence, writings, and printed matter added to the collection by
Bertram D. Wolfe's widow, Ella Wolfe, in the years following his death in 1977. Additional items became part of the papers
after Ella Wolfe's death in 2000. Much of the incremental materials pertain to Bertram Wolfe's career as a critic and historian
of Marxism and Soviet communism, as well as his work as a biographer of Diego Rivera. They also document Ella Wolfe's role
as her husband's collaborator and caretaker of his legacy, while showing her as a personality in her own right with a wide
network of friends and correspondents.
The
Speeches and Writings series of the papers contains an unpublished, book length manuscript by Bertram Wolfe, "The Corrido in Mexico." A work of
cultural anthropology, this study explores how the
corrido, a folk ballad form, has served as a vehicle for the expression of popular sentiment in Mexico, including as a means of commentary
on various topical issues. In this series there is also a rare pamphlet in Spanish containing a text written by Wolfe during
his visit to Spain in 1937, at the height of the Civil War. The series additionally includes the typescript draft of Bertram
Wolfe's autobiography,
A Life in Two Centuries, and the proofs of another posthumously published work,
Revolution and Reality.
The
Correspondence series records Bertram Wolfe's dealings with his publishers, as well as his exchanges with a number of colleagues in the
fields of Soviet history and Marxist studies. A substantial amount of the correspondence relates to Ella Wolfe and her many
friends and acquaintances. Included in this are many letters written to Ella Wolfe by Svetlana Allilueva, the daughter of
Joseph Stalin. The
Writings by others series includes a number of unpublished papers, mainly relating to Soviet history, Marxism, and the Spanish Civil War.
The
Photographs series includes many pictures of Bertram and Ella Wolfe. There are also several hundred photographs that depict paintings,
sketches, and murals by Diego Rivera. These were used by Bertram Wolfe in the preparation of his book,
The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera. There are copies of a number of books by Bertram Wolfe, including Italian, Spanish, and German translations of some of
them, in the
Printed Matter series of the increment.
The
Biographical file contains college yearbooks, membership cards, as a well as number of tributes to Bertram Wolfe written after his death.
It also includes the transcript of an oral history interview with Ella Wolfe.