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Collection of Socialist and Labor Movement Pamphlets and Books, 1886-1962 http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5b69q5cw No online items Finding Aid for the Collection of Socialist and Labor Movement Pamphlets and Books, 1886-1962 Processed by Royce Dieckmann, with assistance from Laurel McPhee, as part of the CFPRT project, 2005; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé. UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Manuscripts Division Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/ © 2005 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Finding Aid for the Collection of 932 1 Socialist and Labor Movement Pamphlets and Books, 1886-1962 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. 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: 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) Finding Aid for the Collection of 932 2 Socialist and Labor Movement Pamphlets and Books, 1886-1962 8. 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. Related Material A Collection of material about the Communist Party in the United States and Southern California, 1952-1971 (Collection 1120) . Available at the Department of Special Collections, UCLA. Weintraub (Hyman) and Goldberg (William) Collection of Socialist Party Material (Collection 831) . Available at the Department of Special Collections, UCLA. A collection of underground, alternative and extremist literature, 1900-1990 (Collection 50) . Available at the Departmentof Special Collections, UCLA. 1. Anarchism. 1886-1958. Physical Description: 1 box. Scope and Content Note Pamphlets written by American and European anarchists. Subjects include labor, the Russian Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, social libertarianism and free speech. Important authors include Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Petr Kropotkin, and George Woodcock. Aldred - Ames. Physical Description: 3 items. Box 1, Folder 1 Aldred, Guy A. For communism: a communist manifesto, defining the workers' struggle and the need of a new Communist International, with a history of the anti-parliamentary movement, 1906-1935 (Glasgow: Guy A. Aldred), 1935. Box 1, Folder 1 Altgeld, John. Reasons for pardoning Fielden, Neebe and Schwab (Chicago: Governor of Illinois, John P. Altgeld), 1893. Box 1, Folder 1 Ames, Sarah E. Why the undertone?: an open letter to judge Joseph E. Gary (Chicago: Sarah E. Ames), 1893. Berkman, Alexander. Physical Description: 5 items. Box 1, Folder 2 The anti-climax: the concluding chapter of my Russian diary 'The Bolshevik myth' (Berlin: Alexander Berkman), 1925. Box 1, Folder 2 The Kronstadt rebellion (Berlin: Der Syndikalist), 1922. Box 1, Folder 2 The Russian tragedy: a review and an outlook (Berlin: Der Syndikalist), 1922. Box 1, Folder 2 Berkman, Alexander and Emma Goldman. Deportation, its meaning and message: last message to the people of America (New York: M. E. Fitzgerald), 1919. Box 1, Folder 2 _____. Anarchism on trial: speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman before the United States District Court (New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association), 1917. Berneri - Godwin. Physical Description: 10 items. Box 1, Folder 3 Berneri, Camillo. Peter Kropotkin: his federalist ideas (London: Freedom Press), 1943. Box 1, Folder 3 Brown, Tom. The British general strike 1926 (London: Freedom Press), 1943. Box 1, Folder 3 Caltabiano, Adolfo. Peoples and charlatans (London: Italian Anti-Fascist Action Committee), 1944. Box 1, Folder 3 Ciliga, Anton. The Kronstadt revolt (London: Freedom Press), 1942. Finding Aid for the Collection of 932 3 Socialist and Labor Movement Pamphlets and Books, 1886-1962 1. Anarchism. 1886-1958. Box 1, Folder 3 Cliff, Norman. Peace in our time, for all time!: the rising tide of war resistance, a brief record of the recent progress of the No More War Movement (London: No More War Movement), 1927. Box 1, Folder 3 Corn, R. The two communisms, trans. Doris Wess (London: Freedom Publications Committee), 1930s. Box 1, Folder 3 Davidson, J. Morrison. Mining rents and royalties, 4th ed. (London: William Reeves), ca. 1886. Box 1, Folder 3 Delesalle, Paul. Les bourses du travail et la C.G.T. (Paris: Librairie des Sciences Politiques et Sociales Marcel Rivière), 1910. Box 1, Folder 3 Gibson, Tony. Food production and population (London: Freedom Press), 1952. Box 1, Folder 3 Godwin, William. On law (London: Freedom Press), 1945. Goldman, Emma. Physical Description: 4 items. Box 1, Folder 4 Anarchism: what it really stands for, 2nd ed. (New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association), 1916. Box 1, Folder 4 The place of the individual in society (Chicago: Free Society Forum), 1940. Box 1, Folder 4 The psychology of political violence (New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association), 1911. Box 1, Folder 4 The truth about the Boylsheviki (New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association), 1918. Grave - Kramer. Physical Description: 5 items. Box 1, Folder 5 Grave, Jean. Moribund society and anarchy, trans. Voltairine De Cleyre (San Francisco: Free Society Library/A. Isaak), 1899. Box 1, Folder 5 Icarus, pseud. The Wilhelmshaven revolt: a chapter of the revolutionary movement in the German navy 1918-1919 (London: Freedom Press), 1944. Box 1, Folder 5 Ireland, pseud. Social conditions and character (London: James Tochatti, Liberty Press), 1896. Box 1, Folder 5 Kimball, John C. A sermon on anarchy and the anarchists, with an address on pulpit independence, and the action of Unity Church (Hartford: Plimpton Manufacturing Co.), 1887. Box 1, Folder 5 Kramer, Jack. Punching out, illus. Margaret Sandford (Detroit: Our Times Publications), 1952. Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich. Physical Description: 14 items. Box 1, Folder 6 An appeal to the young (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co.), 1918. Box 1, Folder 6 An appeal to the young (New York: Max N. Maisel, People's Press), 1890s. Box 1, Folder 6 An appeal to the young (New York: Max N. Maisel), 1890s. Box
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