Albert Glotzer papers, 1919-1999.

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Albert Glotzer papers, 1919-1999.

Correspondence, writings, minutes, internal bulletins and other internal party documents, legal documents, and printed matter, relating to Leon Trotsky; the development of American Trotskyism from 1928 until the split in the Socialist Workers Party in 1940; the development of the Workers Party and its successor, the Independent Socialist League, from that time until its merger with the Socialist Party in 1958; Trotskyism abroad; the Dewey Commission hearings of 1937; legal efforts of the Independent Socialist League to secure its removal from the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations; and the political development of the Socialist Party and its successor, Social Democrats, U.S.A., after 1958.

67 ms. boxes, 6 envelopes.

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Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation

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Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, New York, 1937.

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The Dewey Commission (officially the "Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials") was initiated in March 1937 by the "American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky." It was named after its Chairman, John Dewey. Trotsky was defended by the lawyer Albert Goldman. The commission cleared Trotsky of all charges made during the Moscow Trials and, moreover, exposed the scale of the frame-up of all other defendants during these trials. The Dewey Commissio...

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 ...

Munkáspárt.

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Social Democrats, U.S.A.

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Social Democrats, USA, is a descendant organization of the Socialist Pary of America. From the description of Records, 1937-1993 (bulk 1970-1984). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 46719281 ...

Socialist Workers' Party (Great Britain)

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Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have worked with the farm movement and have covered farm protests for the Party's newspaper, The militant, since the 1970s. The items in this collection were collected by various members who were active with the farm movement. From the description of Farm protests collection, 1954-1990, n.d. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 221317319 American socialist political party. From the description of Socia...

Glotzer, Albert, 1908-1999

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American Trotskyist and subsequently social democratic leader; official recorder, Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, Mexico City, 1937. From the description of Albert Glotzer papers, 1919-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872385 Biographical/Historical Note 1908 Born, Ivanik, Russia (now Belarus) ...

Fourth International

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Independent Socialist League

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The Workers Party formed in 1940 in opposition to the Soviet invasion of Finland. In 1949, it renamed itself the Independent Socialist League (ISL) and in 1957 joined the Socialist Party of America. From the description of Independent socialist press publications for the Worker's Party and the Independent Socialist League, 1940-1958. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 191029158 The Workers Party (1940-1949), a Trotskyist organization founded and l...