Papers, 1918-1979.

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Papers, 1918-1979.

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The papers of Erik Bert consist of subject files, correspondence, notebooks, typescripts, and published writings relating to his career. A member of the Communist Party, he was editor of The Producers News: National Edition (1931-1934) and the Farmers National Weekly (1934-1936), and on the staff of the Daily World (1941-1979). The subject files include such items as material on the agricultural census, the history of agriculture and communism, and agriculture in the United States. There are also copies of many of his articles and book reviews. However, the major emphasis is on a linkage between agriculture and communism.

12 linear ft., (24 boxes)

University of Iowa Libraries

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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...

Bert, Erik, 1904-1981

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Erik Bert was the pseudonym of Herbert Joseph Putz, -1981, (Columbia B.A., 1926, M.A., 1927), Marxist scholar and editor of "The Producers News" and the "Farmers National Weekly" for 40 years. He served on the editorial board of "The Daily Worker" and "The Daily World." He contributed many articles to "Political Affairs," the theoretical journal of the U.S. Communist Party, on agrarian reform, communism and Communist Party conferences, Czechoslovakia in 1968, civil rights, capitalism, and on oth...