Egri Lajos Papers, 1917-1967

Communist Party of the United States of America

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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Soviet Union, was founded in 1919 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution by the left wing members of the Socialist Party USA. These split into two groups, with each holding founding conventions in Chicago in September 1919: one which established the Communist Labor Party, and a second which established the Communist Party of America. In a 1920 Joint Unity Convention, a minority faction of t...

Egri, Lajos, 1888-1967

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Egri Lajos (1888-1967) was born in Eger, Hungary and came to the United States in 1908. He was a playwright for the Hungarian radical theater in New York City at the end of World War II, founder in the mid-1930s of the Egri school of writing, and author of The Art of Creative Writing and other works on writing. Many of Egri's plays were printed in Elöre, the magazine of the Hungarian Federation of the Socialist Party, and were performed by small theater groups affiliated with the Hungarian sect...

Elöre Group of Players.

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Socialist Party (U.S.). Hungarian Federation.

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