CRL holds microfilm of the transcripts and records of 23 important trials involving communism. The records are entered in the catalog under the main entry (i.e., the name of the defendant) as follows:
Mintz, Bella and Yetta Stromberg
Topic Guide
Socialism and Communism
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CRL Collections
The references below feature the strengths of CRL’s holdings. Links point to more detailed descriptions in the CRL catalog, as well as digital versions of the content or digitized finding aids for microfilm where available. Collecting in this area continues through the purchase programs.
Communist Trials
Founders and Leaders
Eugene V. Debs Scrapbook, 1887–1924
Microphoto
1887–1924
This set reproduces newspaper clippings, compiled by Debs, that covered his speeches, appearances, and other activities.
Morris Hillquit Papers
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
1869–1933
Includes the papers of Morris Hillquit, one of the founders and leaders of the Socialist Party of America and prominent labor lawyer during the early 20th century.
GUIDE: Ham, F. Gerald. The Morris Hillquit papers: guide to a microfilm edition. C-21969
Newspapers and Publications
The Left in Britain
Harvester
1973–
This is a microfilm and microfiche set of publications of contemporary left-wing organizations in Britain. The documents are issued each year; the guides every other year.
GUIDE: Left in Britain: a checklist and guide; with historical notes to 37 leftwing political movements and groupings active in Britain between 1904 and 1972, whose publications comprise the Harvester/Primary Social Sources microfilm collection. B-26829 Checklist and guides published biennially, 1973–.
Proceedings of Congresses
Histoire de la IIe Internationale
Minkoff
1889–1914
CRL subscribed to the reprint edition of the proceedings and congresses of the Second International, an organization of socialist and labour parties formed in Paris in 1889, and of general works of this period on socialism. CRL has received volumes 1 through 23, and will receive other volumes as they are issued. All the titles are cataloged separately; records appear in CRL’s catalog.
Les Congres Socialistes Francais
Hachette
1876–1914
GUIDE: CRL Reference Folder #98. This microfiche set includes the proceedings of congresses held by various French socialist parties from 1876 to 1914.
Socialist Societies and Political Parties
Fabian Research Series
Kraus Reprint
1931–58
The Fabian Society, a British socialist movement, issued this reprint of journals and tracts. Individual titles are cataloged in CRL’s collection, and the reports are cataloged as serials under the following entries:
- New Fabian Research Bureau. NFRB, no.1–42, 1931–38
- Fabian Society (Great Britain). Research Series, no.43–135, April 1939–Oct. 1949
- Fabian Research Series, no.136–200, Oct. 1949–Oct. 1958
Records of the Socialist Labor Party of America, 1877–1907
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
1877–1907
Includes records relating to national, state, and local activities of the party.
GUIDE: Socialist Labor Party. Records of the Socialist Labor Party of America; guide to a microfilm collection. C-21970
Socialist League. Pt. 3.
Research Publications
1884–91
Part 3 contains the complete surviving Archives of the Socialist League, 1884–91, and the Minutes and Papers of the Council of the League from the Nettlau Archive at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam. They provide a record of William Morris’s motives, creative work, and political activities. The set includes papers considering the practicalities and theories of socialism. An inventory appears on reel 1.
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