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Bittelman, Alex, 1890-1982. Things I have learned, Autobiographical typescript, 1963.

Title: Things I have learned, Autobiographical typescript, 1963.

The material contains an unpublished autobiography describing childhood and radical activities in Russia, arrival in the United States in 1912, early Socialist connections, formation of the American Communist Party, factional feuds within the Communist movement, comments on its important personalities such as Earl Browder, William Z. Foster, Jay Lovestone, Charles E. Ruthenberg, and many others; reflections on the New Deal and Cold War; thoughts on Bittelman's imprisonment for Communist activities; concern for Jewish survival; and reflections on the world ca. 1963.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear in. 1963.

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Guide to the Alex Bittelman Papers, 1931-1972

Title: Guide to the Alex Bittelman Papers, 1931-1972

Alex Bittelman, Communist activist and theoretician, was one of the founders of the Jewish Communist movement in the United States. He joined the Communist Party in 1919 and held a number of responsible positions until his expulsion in 1959. The collection consists of manuscripts, clippings and off-prints of various unpublished and published writings, including the book-length "The Bolshevik Revolution and its Historic Consequences," manuscripts of Communist Party USA programmatic and internal discussion documents, correspondence relating to Bittelman's writings, correspondence between Bittelman and William Z. Foster (some in relation to Bittelman's assistance to Foster in his writing endeavors), legal documents relating to Bittelman's indictment under the Smith Act and to the U.S. government's attempt to deport him. Some of the material is in Yiddish, including clippings reviewing Bittelman's writings. Topics include Communism and the Jewish people, Marxist theory, and political economy.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 linear feet; (4 boxes)

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Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

Title: Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

The official organ of the Communist Party, USA, the Daily Worker's editorial positions reflected the policies of the Communist Party. At the same time the paper also attempted to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States that included labor, civil rights, and peace activists, with stories covering a wide range of events, organizations and individuals in the United States and around the world. As a daily newspaper, it covered the major stories of the twentieth century. However, the paper always placed an emphasis on radical social movements, social and economic conditions particularly in working class and minority communities, poverty, labor struggles, racial discrimination, right wing extremism with an emphasis on fascist and Nazi movements, and of course the Soviet Union and the world-wide Communist movement. The paper has had a succession of names and has been published in varying frequences between daily to weekly over the course of its existence. In 2010 it ceased print publication and became an electronic, online-only, weekly publication titled the People's World. The bulk of the collection consists of printed photographic images produced through a variety of processes, collected by the photography editors of the Daily Worker and its successor newspapers as a means of maintaining an organized collection of images for use in publication. Images of many important people, groups and events associated with the CPUSA and the American Left are present in the collection, as well as images of a wide variety of people, subjects and events not explicitly linked with the CPUSA or Left politics.

ArchivalResource: 227 Linear Feet in 226 record cartons and 2 oversized boxes

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Draper, Theodore, 1912-2006. Theodore Draper research files, 1919-1970.

Title: Theodore Draper research files, 1919-1970.

The collection consists of the research files of Theodore Draper from 1919 to 1970. The collection is comprised mostly of subject files and recorded interviews Draper collected during the course of his research on the history of American Communism, primarily those collected for the projected third volume, never completed, covering the period since 1930. The materials in this collection document the history of the American Communist Party, 1930-1945, and, to a lesser extent, American Communism from 1919-1929, as well as the persons (primarily Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1930-1945) who were active in party affairs, particularly for the later period. The collection includes correspondence and writings of party figures, including Max Bedacht, Herbert Benjamin, Alexander Bittelman, Earl Browder, James Cannon, Eugene Dennis, and Vincent R. Dunne; taped interviews with Josephine Truslow Adams, Browder, Cannon, Manuel Gomez, and Joseph Starobin; summaries, notes and/or transcripts of interviews with Bedacht, Robert Bendiner, Benjamin, John Brophy, Browder, Esther Corey, Frank Crosswaith, Samuel Darcy, W.A. Domingo, John Frey, William Goldsmith, Robert F. Hall, J.B.S. Hardman, Granville Hicks, Sidney Hook, Ludwig E. Katterfeld, Jay Lovestone, Lewis Merrill, Richard J. Moore, Reid Robinson, Joel A. Rogers, James Rorty, Nat Ross, Jacob Spolansky, Bertram Wolfe, and Charles S. Zimmerman; internal party documents (originals and photocopies), including minutes of Central Executive Committee meetings; pamphlets; party and other radical periodicals; microfilm; and sound recordings.

ArchivalResource: 45 linear ft. : (63 boxes, 122 MF, and 1 OP)

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Guide to the Alex Bittelman Papers, 1931-1972

Title: Guide to the Alex Bittelman Papers, 1931-1972

Alex Bittelman, Communist activist and theoretician, was one of the founders of the Jewish Communist movement in the United States. He joined the Communist Party in 1919 and held a number of responsible positions until his expulsion in 1959. The collection consists of manuscripts, clippings and off-prints of various unpublished and published writings, including the book-length "The Bolshevik Revolution and its Historic Consequences," manuscripts of Communist Party USA programmatic and internal discussion documents, correspondence relating to Bittelman's writings, correspondence between Bittelman and William Z. Foster (some in relation to Bittelman's assistance to Foster in his writing endeavors), legal documents relating to Bittelman's indictment under the Smith Act and to the U.S. government's attempt to deport him. Some of the material is in Yiddish, including clippings reviewing Bittelman's writings. Topics include Communism and the Jewish people, Marxist theory, and political economy.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 linear feet; (4 boxes)

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Van Sickle, Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

Title: Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection 1900-1993

This collection represents the uncataloged pamphlets of the larger Van Sickle Collection at the University of Central Florida. Over 400 hundred pamphlets produced largely from the 1920s through the 1970s reflect communist and socialist ideologies and propaganda. Pamphlets from the United States, Soviet Union, Canada and many other geographic areas cover such topics as world pacifism and the banning of the atomic bomb, anti-racism, anti-Semitism, world labor movements and Marxist economics.

ArchivalResource: 3 Boxes;; 3.75 linear feet

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Guide to the Alex Bittelman Papers, 1931-1972

Title: Guide to the Alex Bittelman Papers, 1931-1972

Alex Bittelman, Communist activist and theoretician, was one of the founders of the Jewish Communist movement in the United States. He joined the Communist Party in 1919 and held a number of responsible positions until his expulsion in 1959. The collection consists of manuscripts, clippings and off-prints of various unpublished and published writings, including the book-length "The Bolshevik Revolution and its Historic Consequences," manuscripts of Communist Party USA programmatic and internal discussion documents, correspondence relating to Bittelman's writings, correspondence between Bittelman and William Z. Foster (some in relation to Bittelman's assistance to Foster in his writing endeavors), legal documents relating to Bittelman's indictment under the Smith Act and to the U.S. government's attempt to deport him. Some of the material is in Yiddish, including clippings reviewing Bittelman's writings. Topics include Communism and the Jewish people, Marxist theory, and political economy.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 linear feet; (4 boxes)

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Guide to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on the Communist Party of the United States of America, 1918-2004

Title: Guide to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on the Communist Party of the United States of America, 1918-2004

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on the Communist Party of the United States of America is an artificial collection, collected and assembled by the Tamiment Library over the course of several decades. It consists of a wide selection of printed matter produced by the CPUSA from the 1920s up through 2004. This includes fliers, brochures, open letters, constitutions, pamphlets and other publications, offering both a general introduction to the CPUSA as well as an in depth look into the types of public material produced by the organization. Also included in the collection is material from various state and local parties, with a large portion coming from New York State and New York City. There are also materials from the CPUSA's various youth affiliates, the Young Communist League and the Young Workers Liberation League as well as from CPUSA antecedents and affiliated organizations. Lastly, the collection consists of pamphlets put out by CPUSA presses, including their paper, The Daily Worker, and such publishing houses as International Publishers, New Century Publishers, and Workers Library Publishers.

ArchivalResource: 11.5 Linear Feet (12 boxes)

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Deportation Hearing Transcripts and Records, 1939-1941

Title: Deportation Hearing Transcripts and Records, 1939-1941

Transcripts of the first and second deportation hearings of Harry Bridges. Bridges, a San Francisco labor leader and Australian citizen who entered the United States in 1920, underwent two failed deportation attempts between 1938 and 1945 for his alleged affiliation with the Communist Party. The collection also includes briefs, hearing opinions and appeal, and the court opinion regarding Bridges' petition for writ of habeas corpus.

ArchivalResource: 4 Paige boxes

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Guide to the Communist Party of the United States of America Records, 1892-2009

Title: Guide to the Communist Party of the United States of America Records, 1892-2009

The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist-Leninist political organization that was founded in Chicago in 1919. The CPUSA played a pivotal role in many significant political and social movements of the 20th century. Its Party platform focused largely on working class issues such as fair wages and unemployment, civil rights for racial and ethnic minorities, civil liberties for politically persecuted communities, economic justice for the poor, the unemployed and for immigrants, and international peace efforts. The Party's work left an indelible mark in the arena of progressive politics and made it an influential force in the labor movement, particularly from the 1920s to the 1940s. Its varied political, social, and cultural initiatives attracted the support of a number of prominent artists, intellectuals, and activists, including Woody Guthrie, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Angela Davis. Though the CPUSA's strength and size declined sharply following World War II and the advent of the Cold War and McCarthyism, it remains committed to socialism, peace, economic and social justice, and civil rights and liberties. The records of the Communist Party, USA provide vivid documentation of the organization's trajectory from its birth in 1919 to the early 2000s. The collection includes a diverse mix of correspondence, convention and conference materials, essays and manuscripts, internal discussion documents, reports, speech transcripts, research files, printed ephemera, clippings, legal documents, photographs, posters, audio tapes, films, videos, and a wealth of personal papers. Though materials from as early as 1892 can be found in the collection, the bulk of the records were created between 1950 and 1990. A more comprehensive record of the CPUSA's early 20th century activity can be found in the Files of the Communist Party of the USA in the Comintern Archives, 1919-1943 (Microfilm R-7548).

ArchivalResource: 480.5 Linear Feet, 3512 audiocassettes, 825 sound tape reels, 69 sound discs (cd), 612 videocassettes (vhs), 476 videocassettes (u-matic), 57 videocassettes (betacam), 62 videoreels (1/2 inch), 3 videoreels (1 inch), 7 videoreels (2 inch), 420 film reels, 34.51 Gigabytes on 15 CD-Rs, 20 floppy disks, 5 DVD-Rs, 1 zip disk, and 1 commercial CD

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