Charles A. Orr papers, 1983-1993.

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Charles A. Orr papers, 1983-1993.

Autobiographical writings and miscellany, relating to socialism in the United States, conditions in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, and encounters with George Orwell in Spain in 1936-1937 and with Leon Trotsky in Mexico in 1940.

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Orwell, George, 1903-1950

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George Orwell (b. 25 June 1903, Motihari, India–d. 21 January 1950, London, England) is the pen name for British author Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell attended Eton College and he joined the Imperial police force taking a job in Burma (modern Myanmar). After returning to England, he settled in London and started writing and became a teacher. He is best known for novels 1984 and Animal Farm....

Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940

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Lev Davidovich Bronstein[a] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Ukrainian revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Trotskyism. Born to a wealthy Ukrainian-Jewish family in Yanovka (now Bereslavka), Trotsky embraced Marxism after moving to Nikolayev in 1896. In 1898, he was arrested for revolutionary activities and subsequently exiled to Siberia. He escaped from ...

Orr, Charles A. (Charles Andrew), 1906-

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Labor economist. From the description of Charles Orr papers, 1950-1967. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32320939 Journalists and academics from the USA; worked in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War; after their escape to Paris they returned to the USA in 1939. From the description of Archives 1938, 1943, 1992-1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80715597 Student and teacher at the University of Michigan, 1...