Register of the John G. Wright papers
1902 | Born as Joseph Vanzler in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in the Russian Empire |
circa 1914 | Emigrated to the United States |
circa 1920 | Graduated from Harvard University. Became a professional chemist |
1933 | Joined the Communist League of America (subsequently Socialist Workers Party) |
1933-1940 | Literary collaborator and translator of Leon Trotsky |
1939-1956 | Member, National Committee, Socialist Workers Party |
1956 | Died in New York City |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
"American Perspectives," circa 1933
"A Few Facts" [re France], 1934
"Proposed Theses on the Role and Nature of the Revolutionary Party," 1934
"The Bolshevik-Leninists in the SFIO" and La Vérité, 1935
"The Fate of a Marxist Classic," The Accumulation of Capital, 1935 July 8
"Perspectives of the American Revolution," 1936
"The Ideological Captives of the Bourgeoisie," 1939 July 15
Outline History of Russian Bolshevism 1940
Book Two
Notes and drafts
Edited typescript 1977
Untitled speech re splits in Bolshevik history, 1940
"What Are Russia's Chances?" [re German invasion], 1941 June
Untitled speech re party organization, Socialist Workers Party convention, 1942
Untitled speech, anniversary of founding of Second International, 1942 May 1
Untitled speech, anniversary of death of Leon Trotsky, 1942 August
Exchange of notes with other Socialist Workers Party leaders re revolutionary defeatism, 1942-1944
Untitled speech, Socialist Workers Party National Committee plenum, 1943 October 31 - November 1
"How Long Before the Revolution?," 1944
Untitled speech re Germany, 1944
Untitled speech, anniversary of Russian Revolution, 1944 November
"The British Labor Victory: Its Meaning for the American Workers," national lecture tour, 1945 September - November
"Stalin," speech re publication of Leon Trotsky's 1946
"Theses on the American Revolution," 1946
Untitled writing re Soviet Union, 1947
Untitled speech re war and depression, 1947
"The Twin Evils: War and Depression," May Day speech, 1947 May 3
Untitled remarks, educational meeting re British Labour Party, 1947 September 18
Untitled writing re Yugoslavia, 1948
"The Soviet Union Today," speech, 1949
Untitled speech re devaluation, 1949 October 6
Untitled speech, anniversary of Russian Revolution, 1949 November
Untitled speech re Yugoslavia, Socialist Workers Party convention, 1950
Untitled speech re Eastern Europe, Socialist Workers Party National Committee plenum, 1950 February
Review of Benjamin I. Schwartz, "Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao," circa 1951
Untitled remarks, unidentified meeting, 1951 January
"The Colonial Revolution: Greatest Event of Our Time," speech, 1951 November 30
Foreword and notes to Leon Trotsky, "The First Five Years of the Communist International," Volume II, 1953
Untitled speech in opposition to Cochran-Clarke faction, 1953
"Stalin and Stalinism," speech, 1953 April 17
"Cochranite Level of Discussion: Mechanical Thinking Plus Sophistry Plus Slander," speech, 1953 May 3
"Djilas Case," 1954
Untitled May Day speech, 1954 May 1
Untitled writing re Hu Feng purge in China, 1955
"Preliminary Notes on Automation," 1955 January 3
Untitled resolution on colonialism, 1955 June 29
"The Soviet Union Today," draft resolution, 1955 August 12
"Draft Amendment on the Third Chinese Revolution" [with Farrell Dobbs and Morris Stein], 1955 September 13
"ABC of Marxism," International Workers School lecture series, (repeated for many years) undated
General
Historical materialism
Marxian economics
"Bolshevik Traditions (Intra-Party Conduct)," undated
"The Collapse of the Second International," undated
"Documents for the History of the Comintern," undated
"Kamo: The Story of a Worker-Bolshevik," undated
"Marxism and the Law," undated
"Marxist Approach to Slogans," undated
"Material Base of Thought," undated
"On the USSR Theses," undated
"The Proletarian Viewpoint," undated
Untitled writing re American history undated
Untitled writing re antisemitism undated
Untitled writing re atomic energy undated
Untitled writing re China undated
Untitled writing re Communist International 1st Congress undated
Untitled writing re fascism undated
Untitled writing re Ludwig Feuerbach undated
Untitled writing re Karl Kautsky undated
Untitled writing re V. I. Lenin undated
Untitled writing re Lovestoneites undated
Untitled writing re Vaclav Machajski undated
Untitled writing re Russian Revolution undated
Untitled writing re Iakov Sverdlov undated
Untitled writing re Leo Tolstoy undated
Untitled miscellaneous writings undated
Dewey, Frank. "Rudolf Hilferding," undated
Dobbs, Farrell, Morris Stein, and Joseph Hansen. "Statement on the Internal Party Situation," 1953
Fischer, Oscar
"Die Stalinisten erinnern sich an Thälmann: Warum hat Stalin nicht geholfen?" 1939-1940
"Verfall und Aufstieg: Wanderer ins Nichts," circa 1941
Kim, Chang Sei. Untitled memoirs of a Korean physician undated
Morrow, Felix. "The Myth of French Democracy," circa 1940
Munis, Grandizo
"Una internacional contra el internacionalismo," 1941 February
"The Stagnation of Political Centrism," undated
O'Rourke, Walter. Untitled writing re Mexico, 1941 June 8
Parti Communiste Internationaliste [France]. "The Conception of the Party," circa 1945
Peng, Shu-tse. "The Third Chinese Revolution and Its Perspective," 1954 December 1
Plekhanov, Georgii. "Belinsky and Rational Reality," Fourth International, 1955 Spring
Typescript translated by Wright
Notes and working materials for translation
Printed copy
R. "Theses on the Crisis of Stalinist Bonapartism," 1941 January 31
Revolutionary Communist Party [China]. "The Founding Convention of the Revolutionary Communist Party of China," 1948 September 10
Rizzi, Bruno. "La bureaucratisation du monde," 1939
Sternberg, Fritz. "Draft of the Economic Part of the Program of the Fourth International," undated
Trotsky, Leon
"Will Japan Commit Suicide?" Liberty 1933 November 18
"Politics in the Reichstag Trial," New Republic, 1934 January 3
"If America Should Go Communist," Liberty, 1935 March 23
"How Should the Bolshevik-Leninists Act in Spain? Letter to a Spanish Comrade," 1936 April 12
"Revolutionary Interlude in France," Nation, 1936 August 8
Transcript of answers to American comrades, 1937
"Did Stalin Poison Lenin?" Liberty, 1940 August 10
Stalin, 1941
Working materials provided by Wright
Memoranda by Wright, Charles Malamuth and Jean van Heijenoort re editorial changes to text made by Malamuth
Wollenberg, Erich. "The Red Army," 1938
Unidentified writers
"La montée revolutionnaire atteint l'URSS," 1953
"Report on Yugoslavia," 1950 May
"Zwei Kamenews, zwei Lebenswege," undated
Untitled series of writings on women and socialism undated
Leaflets, cards, and style sheet undated
Printed matter. Issues of Les cahiers de l'économie soviétique and clippings 1941-1953
Artwork for press undated
Correspondence File 1934-1956
General 1943-1955
Baghavan, R.S. (Ceylon) 1948-1954
Bartell, Mike 1945-1947
Birchman, Robert L. 1945
Braden, Mark 1945
Breitman, George 1943-1955
Canfield, Cass (Harper and Brothers; re Leon Trotsky manuscripts) 1937
Cannon, James P. 1944-1954
Carlson, Grace 1943-1947
Chester, Bob 1945-1955
Copeland, Vince 1944-1946
Cornell, Charles 1946
Creel, Warren 1944-1947
Davenport, William 1945-1946
Dobbs, Farrell 1945-1953
Dowson, Ross (Canada) 1946
Dunne, Vincent Raymond 1945
Forkosch, Morris D. (re Trotsky heirs) 1941
Frank, Pierre (France) 1945
Frankel, Jan (Coyoacán) 1937
Geldman, Max 1945-1952
Geller, Jules 1944-1951
Glass, Frank 1944-1945
Goldman, Albert (re Trotsky manuscripts) 1941-1945
Gordon, Eloise 1944-1947
Gordon, Sam 1945-1948
Hansen, Reba 1945
Haston, Jock (Great Britain) 1946
Healy, Gerry (Great Britain) 1952-1953
Karsner, Rose 1951
Keemer, Edgar 1944-1945
Kitt, Bill 1944-1945
Konikow, Antoinette (mother-in-law of Wright) 1934-1946
Kovalesky, Theodore 1943-1947
Lee, Grace 1947
Leinwand, Rose (sister of Wright) 1943-1945
Liberty (re Trotsky manuscripts) 1938
Malamuth, Charles (re Trotsky manuscripts) 1938-1940
Mandel, Ernest (Belgium) 1945-1953
Marcy, Sam 1956
Mei, Lei Dar (re China) 1955
Moreno, Nahuel (Argentina) 1955
Morrow, Felix 1943
Murphy, Patrick 1944
New International (re Trotsky manuscripts) 1939
Novack, George 1945-1952
O'Brien, Vaughan T. (Coyoacán) 1938-1939
Olshausen, George G. 1947-1948
O'Rourke, Walter (Coyoacán) 1940
Pablo, Michel (France) 1948
Roberts, Dan 1944
Rubinstein, Moisei (Mexico) 1936
Saettone, Ruben (re Argentina) 1945
Selander, Ted 1945-1947
Sinclair, Louis (Great Britain) 1948
Stein, Morris and Sylvia 1943-1948
Swabeck, Arne 1942-1955
Torchia, Rose 1945-1946
Trainor, Larry and Augusta 1944-1947
Trotskaia, Nataliia Sedova 1945
Trotsky, Leon 1937-1940
Vanzler, Edith (first wife of Wright) 1945
Vanzler, Tyl (son of Wright) 1945-1953
Walker, Charles R. (re Trotsky manuscripts) 1937
Weber, Sara (Coyoacán) 1937-1938
Weiss, Murry 1942-1951
Weiss, Myra Tanner 1944
Wild, Mr. (Great Britain; re Trotsky manuscripts) 1937
Wolfe, Bernard (Coyoacán) 1937
Wolfe, Bertram D. 1941