http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt1q2nc2n8 No online items Register of the Pierre Lanneret papers Finding aid prepared by David Jacobs Hoover Institution Library and Archives © 2003 434 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6003 [email protected] URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives Register of the Pierre Lanneret 93032 1 papers Title: Pierre Lanneret papers Date (inclusive): 1902-1996 Collection Number: 93032 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives Language of Material: In English and French Physical Description: 18 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box(10.0 Linear Feet) Abstract: Writings, notes, correspondence, serial issues, pamphlets, leaflets, internal bulletins, and photographs, relating to left-wing resistance activities in France during World War II, and to libertarian socialist and communist movements in France, the United States and elsewhere. Creator: Lanneret, Pierre, 1921-1993 Hoover Institution Library & Archives Access The collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1993. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Pierre Lanneret papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives. 1921 Born, Auxerre, France 1938 Joins La Jeunesse Revolutionnaire Socialiste, a Trotskyist group Becomes employed as a typesetter 1942-1943 Sent to Germany as a laborer under the terms of la Service du Travail Obligatoire 1943 Joins the Groupe Révolutionnaire Prolétarien, a clandestine group of "revolutionary internationalists," in Paris 1946-1950 Active in the Bordigist group, la Fraction Française de la Gauche Communiste 1950 Joins Socialisme ou Barbarie 1951 Emigrates to Canada 1958 Moves to San Francisco, becoming member of the Typographical Union 1970-1975 Member, International Socialists 1976-1979 Member, A World to Win 1985 Third Camp Internationalists in France during World War II 1993 Dies Scope and Content of Collection Acquired in 1987, with a significant increment received in 2001, the Pierre Lanneret papers in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives provide a window on the history of 20th century French working-class radicalism, and in particular, on the life of small but influential groups whose politics were situated well to the left of the French Communist Party. It also documents the activities of similar groups in the United States and the United Kingdom. Having entered the labor force as an adolescent in France, Lanneret worked in the printing trades as a typesetter and composer until his retirement in 1984. At the same time, he devoted a life's work and intellectual effort to revolutionary politics, participating as a militant in several organizations, and conducting an extensive correspondence with a number of like-minded individuals, a connection which in many cases endured long after any period of formal organizational collaboration. Lanneret's first political engagement was with a Trotskyist youth group in his native Auxerre, but by the time of the Second World War, his views had shifted in the direction of a revolutionary internationalist perspective, which did not view the Soviet Union as socialist, and which opposed both Nazi Germany and the Allied powers, seeing the war as the expression of imperialist rivalries, not as an anti-fascist crusade. At considerable personal risk, Lanneret evaded obligatory labor service in Germany during the Nazi occupation of France and went underground in Paris, joining a small resistance group, the Groupe Révolutionnaire Prolétarien, which also espoused a "third camp internationalist" perspective. This clandestine group engaged in limited propaganda work and some direct action. Its history, along with that of other similar groups, is described in Lanneret's work, Third Camp Internationalists in France during World War II, various editions of which are found in the collection, along with extensive research materials consulted in the preparation of this monograph (see SPEECHES AND WRITINGS series). A German Register of the Pierre Lanneret 93032 2 papers translation of the joint autobiography of Paul (Pavel) and Clara Thalman, which also discusses the activities of the Groupe Révolutionnaire Prolétarien, is included in the WRITINGS BY OTHERS series in the collection. After the war, Lanneret was an early member of the group Socialisme ou Barbarie, whose ideas on modern revolution and the nature of bureaucracy were later to exert a considerable influence on the anti-authoritarian currents of the student and worker revolt in France during May-June 1968. Although he emigrated to North America, living first in Canada and then in San Francisco, Lanneret continued to meet and correspond with his former associates in the French revolutionary milieu. Among these was the philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis, the principal theorist of Socialisme ou Barbarie. The collection contains Castoriadis's correspondence with Lanneret, translations made by Lanneret of some of Castoriadis's writings, and an extensive selection of those writings in the original French (See TRANSLATIONS and WRITINGS BY OTHERS series). There are also copies of the review, Socialisme ou barbarie, in which can be found articles by Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, and others (see PRINTED MATTER series). The PRINTED MATTER series in the collection also contains a number of rare or fugitive pamphlets and serial issues from political groups in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom. There are extensive materials from the British Solidarity group, which was highly influenced by Socialisme ou Barbarie, and from the French councilist group Informations Correspondance Ouvrières, an offshoot of Socialisme ou Barbarie. In addition, there is a considerable number of publications from fairly obscure leftist groups in the United States in the 1930s, and from Trotskyist and Maoist groups in France in the post-1968 period. There is a considerable amount of publications from groups identified with the Bordigist tendency in revolutionary Marxist politics. The collection also contains some serial issues relating specifically to the May-June 1968 events in France (see OVERSIZE MATERIALS), and recordings of songs associated with the Paris Commune, 1871. A feature of the political movements in which Lanneret was involved was the common use of pseudonyms, both as a practice imposed by conditions of wartime clandestinity and as a habit continued afterward. Where appropriate, these pseudonyms have been given in the case of deceased individuals to aid in the identification of writings and correspondence. Subjects and Indexing Terms World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements World War, 1939-1945 -- France Communism -- United States Socialism -- United States Communism -- France Socialism -- France Anarchism -- France French -- United States Fourth International BIOGRAPHICAL FILE 1993-1994 Scope and Contents note Biographies and inventory, arranged by physical form. Biographies box 1, folder 1 "Pierre Lanneret: Biographical Details," undated Scope and Contents note Register of the Pierre Lanneret 93032 3 papers Holograph notes box 1, folder 2 Cohen, Larry, "Pierre Remembered" 1993 Scope and Contents note Typescript box 1, folder 3 Simon, Henri, "Pierre Lanneret, alias Camille" 1994 Scope and Contents note Typescript. Includes accompanying letter, 1994 May 5 box 1, folder 4 Inventory of serial issues in personal library undated Scope and Contents note Holograph CORRESPONDENCE 1969-1992 Scope and Contents note Letters and enclosures, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. box 1, folder 5 Unidentified 1976 Scope and Contents note Letter from Margaret, with reference to Maximilien Rubel box 1, folder 6 Alexander, Robert J. 1991-1992 box 1, folder 7 Castoriadis, Cornelius 1975-1991 box 1, folder 8 Cohen, Larry undated Register of the Pierre Lanneret 93032 4 papers box 1, folder 9 Davoust, Gaston (pseudonym, Henri Chazé) 1969-1984 box 1, folder 10 Goldner, Loren 1987-1988 box 1, folder 11 Gontarbert, Sania undated box 1, folder 12 Jacobs, David 1987-1992 box 1, folder 13 Klein, Stephanie 1989-1981 box 1, folder 14 Lefievre, M. 1983 box 1, folder 15 Martine, J. 1989-1991 box 1, folder 16 Rubel, Maximilien 1969-1991 box 1, folder 17 Thalman, Clara 1980-1986 SPEECHES AND WRITINGS 1977-2003 Scope and Contents note Article, lecture, monograph, notes, outlines, research materials, and translations, arranged chronologically. box 2, folder 1 Comments on La revolución en cuestión(es) undated Scope and Contents note Typescript box 2, folder 2 "Marx and the State," lecture undated Scope and Contents note Typescript Register of the Pierre Lanneret 93032 5 papers box 2, folder 3 Notes on France undated Scope and Contents note Holograph box 2, folder 4 Notes on Hegel and Marx undated Scope and Contents note Holograph box 2, folder 5 Notes on the history of revolutionary movements in France undated Scope and Contents note Holograph box 2, folder 6 Notes on the Russian Revolution undated Scope and Contents note Typescript box 2, folder 7 "Notes on The GPU in the Trotskyist Movement by Georges Vereeken," undated Scope and Contents note Typescript Writings on "the national question," undated box 2, folder 8 Clippings, pamphlets, and other research materials box 2, folder 9 Holograph notes box 2, folder