Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Collection of Socialist and Labor Movement Pamphlets and Books
Date (inclusive): 1886-1962
Collection number: 932
Extent: 42 boxes (21 linear ft.)
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.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of 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, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of 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.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Louise Byrnes, 1977.
Processing Information:
The contents of this collection, formerly known as either A collection of pamphlets of extremist movements, or, A collection
of material about the Right and Left (political science), were organized in alphabetical order at the time of acquisition.
In 2005, Royce Dieckmann created an item-level inventory of the materials and arranged them by main entry in topical categories
to generate a finding aid for the collection. The name of the collection was then changed to its current title.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of Socialist and Labor Movement Pamphlets and Books (Collection 932). Department of Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
964388
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.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Anarchism, 1886-1958 (1 box)
- Asia, 1921-1972 (1 box)
- Europe, 1900-1962 (3.5 boxes)
- Marxism, 1899-1955 (1.5 boxes)
- Miscellaneous, 1920-1951 (.5 box)
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1914-1960 (11 boxes)
- United Kingdom, 1886-1959 (6.5 boxes)
- United States of America, 1890-1961 (17 boxes).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Socialism--Archival resources.
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