Collection of Socialist and Labor Movement Pamphlets and Books, 1886-1962

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Summary

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.
Extent:
42 boxes (21 linear ft.)

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Louise Byrnes, 1977.
Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series:

  1. Anarchism, 1886-1958 (1 box)
  2. Asia, 1921-1972 (1 box)
  3. Europe, 1900-1962 (3.5 boxes)
  4. Marxism, 1899-1955 (1.5 boxes)
  5. Miscellaneous, 1920-1951 (.5 box)
  6. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1914-1960 (11 boxes)
  7. United Kingdom, 1886-1959 (6.5 boxes)
  8. United States of America, 1890-1961 (17 boxes).

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.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Socialism--Archival resources.

Access and use

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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