Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Collection of propaganda material from Europe, North America, and Latin America
Date (inclusive): ca. 1847-1976
Collection number: 1274
Creator: [unknown]
Extent:
21 boxes (10.5 linear feet)
1 oversize box.
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.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
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.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Processing History
Processed by Elena Boudovskaia, with assistance from Laurel McPhee and Elizabeth Sheehan, December 2006.
Minimal processing was done at the box level in March 1981. The collection was re-processed at the item level in the Center
for Primary Research and Training in Fall 2006.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of propaganda material from Europe, North America, and Latin America (Collection 1274).
UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
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.
Organization and 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:
- Sine loco, 1850-1950
- [Algeria?], [1943-1944]
- [Algeria?], [1943-1944]. .25 linear feet
- Algeria, 1944
- [Austria], [1918-1919]
- Austria, 1871-ca. 1947
- Belgium, 1895-ca. 1954
- Bohemia and Moravia, 1943
- Brazil, 1947
- Canada, ca. 1941; 1969
- [Croatia], 1944
- Croatia, 1944
- [Cuba], 1965
- Cuba, ca. 1946
- Czech Republic, ca. 1934
- [Czechoslovakia], ca. 1934
- Czechoslovakia, 1934-1935
- Denmark, 1939
- [Finland], ca. 1939
- [France], ca. 1871-ca. 1944
- France, 1852-1954
- [Germany], ca. 1870-1927
- Germany, 1868-1975
- Germany (East), 1950-1951
- Germany (West), 1946
- [Great Britain], 1903-1919
- Great Britain, 1884-1968
- Hungary, 1918
- India, ca. 1951
- Ireland, [1918]
- Italy, 1902-ca.1938
- Latvia, 1929
- Lithuania, 1926-1937
- [Mexico], 1960
- Mexico, 1937-ca.1968
- Netherlands, 1908; ca. 1916
- New Zealand, 1926; 1933
- Pakistan, 1951
- Poland, 1927-ca. 1935
- Portugal, 1898-1966
- Romania, 1924
- South Africa, 1944
- Soviet Union, 1931-1976
- [Spain], ca.1937-1939
- Spain, 1936-ca. 1948
- Sweden, 1918; ca. 1950
- [Switzerland], 1858-1935
- Switzerland, 1848-1946
- [United States], ca. 1903; ca. 1929; 1931
- United States, 1872-1971
- Uruguay, 1960-1961
- [Yugoslavia], ca. 1944
- Yugoslavia, 1943-1947
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Propaganda, Communist --Archival resources.
Socialist propaganda --Archival resources.
Propaganda --Europe --Archival resources.
Propaganda --Soviet Union --Archival resources.
Propaganda --North America --Archival resources.
Propaganda --Latin America --Archival resources.
Genres and Forms of Material
Propaganda.