Collection of propaganda material from Europe, North America, and Latin America, ca. 1847-1976

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Summary

Creators:
[unknown]
Abstract:
A compilation of pamphlets, books, newspaper issues and broadsides from Europe, North America, and Latin America. Major topics covered in the literature include: Marxism, communism, socialism, fascism, anarchism, and labor issues.
Extent:
21 boxes (10.5 linear feet) 1 oversize box.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of 1191 pamphlets, books, newspaper issues, and broadsides ranging in date from circa 1847 to 1976. Major groups of literature include: labor movement and labor legislation, especially from Switzerland and Great Britain; pro- and anti-anarchist, socialist and communist theory and propaganda from France, Germany, Soviet Union, and other countries of Europe and, to a lesser extent, US and Latin America; fascist history and practical guidelines, mostly for Nazi youth, from Germany; anti-communist and anti-semitic propaganda from wartime France; communist literature and partisan songs from wartime Yugoslavia, etc.

Prominent authors include Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Petr Kropotkin, Karl Kautsky, Ferdinand Lassalle, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Elisée Reclus, Jean Jaurès, Errico Malatesta, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev, Adolf Hitler, David Lloyd George, Harry Pollitt, Iosip Broz Tito, Bertrand Russell, and others.

Arrangement:

The texts are arranged by country of publication and then alphabetically by title. In certain instances, the country of publication could not be fully determined and a best estimate was attempted.

The collection is organized into the following series:

  1. Sine loco, 1850-1950
  2. [Algeria?], [1943-1944]
  3. [Algeria?], [1943-1944]. .25 linear feet
  4. Algeria, 1944
  5. [Austria], [1918-1919]
  6. Austria, 1871-ca. 1947
  7. Belgium, 1895-ca. 1954
  8. Bohemia and Moravia, 1943
  9. Brazil, 1947
  10. Canada, ca. 1941; 1969
  11. [Croatia], 1944
  12. Croatia, 1944
  13. [Cuba], 1965
  14. Cuba, ca. 1946
  15. Czech Republic, ca. 1934
  16. [Czechoslovakia], ca. 1934
  17. Czechoslovakia, 1934-1935
  18. Denmark, 1939
  19. [Finland], ca. 1939
  20. [France], ca. 1871-ca. 1944
  21. France, 1852-1954
  22. [Germany], ca. 1870-1927
  23. Germany, 1868-1975
  24. Germany (East), 1950-1951
  25. Germany (West), 1946
  26. [Great Britain], 1903-1919
  27. Great Britain, 1884-1968
  28. Hungary, 1918
  29. India, ca. 1951
  30. Ireland, [1918]
  31. Italy, 1902-ca.1938
  32. Latvia, 1929
  33. Lithuania, 1926-1937
  34. [Mexico], 1960
  35. Mexico, 1937-ca.1968
  36. Netherlands, 1908; ca. 1916
  37. New Zealand, 1926; 1933
  38. Pakistan, 1951
  39. Poland, 1927-ca. 1935
  40. Portugal, 1898-1966
  41. Romania, 1924
  42. South Africa, 1944
  43. Soviet Union, 1931-1976
  44. [Spain], ca.1937-1939
  45. Spain, 1936-ca. 1948
  46. Sweden, 1918; ca. 1950
  47. [Switzerland], 1858-1935
  48. Switzerland, 1848-1946
  49. [United States], ca. 1903; ca. 1929; 1931
  50. United States, 1872-1971
  51. Uruguay, 1960-1961
  52. [Yugoslavia], ca. 1944
  53. Yugoslavia, 1943-1947

Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

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