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Communism

  • Overview

    • Overview

    The collections contain extensive resources on communist states and communist parties, as well as materials compiled by anticommunist organizations and individuals. Among the most significant are microfilm copies of Soviet Communist Party records and a number of collections relating to Trotskyist organizations in the United States and other countries.

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    Betram Wolfe Papers

    Author of Strange Communists I Have Known

    Archives Of The Soviet Communist Party And Soviet State Microfilm

    Copies of documents from three major Russian archives

    Elizabeth Churchill Brown Papers

    US journalist

    Alexander Dallin Papers

    US historian and political scientist

    Rodolfo Echeverría Martínez Collection

    Materials relating to Partido Comunista Mexicano

    Sidney Hook Papers

    US philosopher and author; founder, Congress for Cultural Freedom

    Jay Lovestone Papers

    General secretary, Communist Party USA, 1927–29, and Communist Party  (Opposition), 1929–40

    Herbert Romerstein Collection

    US government employee and anticommunist author

    Socialist Workers Party Records

    US socialist political party

    George E. Sokolsky Papers

    US journalist; director, American Jewish League against Communism, 1948–62

    Boris I. Nicolaevsky Collection

    Russian Menshevik; archivist and historian

    Bertram David Wolfe Papers

    US representative to Communist International, 1928–29; historian and author of works on communism

    RFE/RL Broadcast Records

    US radio broadcasting organization targeting the Soviet Bloc

    Communism Archival Collections

    Communism Library Materials

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    Communist Chinese Political Movement Collection Now Open

    The Hoover Institution Library and Archives are pleased to announce the opening of the Communist Chinese Political Movement Collection. 

    August 11, 2014
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    Mexican Communist Leader’s Papers Open to Public

    The Hoover Institution Archives has acquired the papers of Miguel Aroche Parra, a Mexican railroad unionist, Communist Party leader, and poet.

    February 24, 2014
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    New communist political ephemera from the Russian Federation in the Hoover Archives

    A February 2013 public opinion poll of citizens in the Russian Federation found that 36 percent of respondents considered the Soviet political system better than all others, a 7 percent rise over last year. Such data should make researchers want to analyze more closely the political development of the Russian Federation since 1991, in particular the continuing appeal of the Soviet form of government among a growing sector of the population.

    October 07, 2013
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    Herbert Romerstein Collection Comes to the Hoover Archives

    The Hoover Institution has recently acquired Herbert Romerstein’s archives, the result of some sixty years of his research and collecting. When fully processed and registered, it will be Hoover’s largest collection on the subversive activities of communist action and communist front organizations in the United States and abroad, substantially complementing the holdings of two large Hoover collections with a similar focus: the US Subversive Activities Control Board records and the William T. Poole collection.

    January 31, 2013
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    Hoover Acquires Rare Historical Materials Relating to Early Chinese Communist Activities in North China

    The Hoover Institution Library and Archives have recently acquired the personal

    September 26, 2012
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    Hoover Institution Workshop Studies the Archives’ Holdings on the Soviet Union and Communist Party

    Each summer during the past five years Hoover research fellow Paul Gregory has led the Hoover Soviet Archives Workshop at the Hoover Institution to study its unique archival holdings on the USSR and Communist party.

    August 17, 2007 Stanford
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    Comrades!: A History of World Communism, By Robert Service

    Leading historian Robert Service examines the history of communism throughout the world in Comrades! A History of World Communism (Harvard University Press) almost two decades after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR.

    May 17, 2007
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    Sound Recordings in the Bertram Wolfe Papers Digitized by Hoover

    Speeches by Bertram Wolfe, and a lengthy oral history by his wife, Ella, have been digitized and are available for immediate access at the Hoover Archives.

    June 03, 2010
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