Archie Henderson - Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right - A Guide to Archives

Websites with information:

http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs33.aspx

Finding aid:

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/SeriesDetail.aspx?series_no=A8911&singleRecord=T

[0639a] Communism, Socialism, and Left-Wing Politics Collection, 1891-1998, MS 452

Location: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063

Description: The collection consists of printed materials, correspondence, journals and organizational records documenting women's involvement in socialist and communist movements in the United States, United Kingdom, and internationally. The series Printed Materials contains newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and printed material on Communism in the United States and Great Britain. These reflect both pro- and anti-Communist perspectives. Includes a copy of "Since the Buford Sailed" (1920) (on the Palmer Raids).

Finding aid:

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss85.html

[0639b] Archives of the Communist International (Comintern)

Location: Russian State Archives for Social and Political History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsialno-politicheskoi istorii - RGASPI), ul. Bolshaya Dmitrovka, 15, 125009 Moscow, Russia

Description: Contains more than 100,000 personal files maintained by the Comintern, including files on persons who were prominent opponents of the Communist movement. USA: fond 495, opis 261 [Collection 495, Inventory 261], contains files on Warren Austin, Daniel Bell, William Benton, Theodore Bilbo, Spruille Braden, Ralph Owen Brewster, Styles Bridges, Earl (Dixon) Browder, Louis Budenz, Mark Clark, Paul Crouch, Martin Dies, Bella Dodd, Max Eastman, Dwight Eisenhower, Julius Epstein, Henry Pratt Fairchild, Henry Ford, James Forrestal, Benjamin Gitlow, Joseph Grew, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, Patrick Hurley, John Kasper, William Knowland, Owen Lattimore, David Lawrence, Jay Lovestone, Henry and Clare Luce, Douglas MacArthur, A.B. Magil, Karl Mundt, John Rankin, Carroll Reece, Leverett Saltonstall, Robert Taft, Dorothy Thompson, and Albert Wedemeyer. Great Britain: fond 495, opis 198 [Collection 495, Inventory 198], contains files on Leopold Amery, Jeffrey Hamm, Emrys Hughes, William Joyce, Oswald Mosley, and Freda Utley.

References:

The INCOMKA Project. Communist International (Comintern) Archives Project (European Reading Room, Library of Congress), http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/comintern-project.html.

Index to digitized collection:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/comintern-home.html

Finding aids for USA: fond 495, opis 261:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/usa-f495-op261-part1-a-br.doc

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/usa-f495-op261-part2-br-fl.doc

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/usa-f495-op261-part3-fo-h.doc

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/usa-f495-op261-part4-i-kra.doc

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/usa-f495-op261-part5-krc-mc.doc

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/usa-f495-op261-part6-me-pr.doc

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/usa-f495-op261-part7-ps-sil.doc

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/usa-f495-op261-part8-sim-v.doc

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/usa-f495-op261-part9-w-z.doc

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/usa-add-a-j%20.doc

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/usa-add-k-z.doc

Finding aids for Great Britain: fond 495, opis 198:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/greatbritain-f495-op198-part1-a-f.doc

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/greatbritain-f495-op198-part2-g-me.doc

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/greatbritain-f495-op198-part3-mi-z.doc

http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/comintern/docs/greatbritain-collective.doc

[0640] The Communist Party of Great Britain archive, 1920, 1943-1991 (microfilmed from the archive at Manchester's People's History Museum), Microform Academic Publishers [microfilm]

Description: The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was formed as a section of the Moscow-based Communist International (Comintern) in 1920. With the dissolution of the party in 1991, the archives were deposited in Manchester's People's History Museum. Central Party records, Organisation Department: Among the responsibilities of the CPGB's national Organisation Department, created in 1943, were the maintenance of membership and cadre records, internal discipline and liaison with the districts. The subseries CP/CENT/ORG/01/09 contains a file on anti-Communist activities of authorities incl. correspondence re police opening of letters and alleged harassment by employers, MI5 infiltration, etc. Creation dates: 1950s. The series Files on non-Communist Party individuals and organisations. [Subseries] CP/CENT/ORG/12/04, contains a fragment of file (surnames beginning with G) of personal notes on alleged fascists and extreme right-wingers. Creation dates: c1943. [Subseries] CP/CENT/ORG/12/07 contains a file on fascist activities incl. copies of fascist literature. Creation dates: c1948-1957. Scope and Content: Letter from Patricia Hunt with information on fascist activities in Birmingham, 1953; reports on local fascist activities of CP districts 1948 incl. report of meeting in Derby market place; letters from J. Tarver on fascist activity in Oxford University, 1952. The series Individual files. [Subseries] CP/CENT/ORG/21/04-CP/CENT/ORG/21/17, contains biographical notes on non-CPGB individuals. Mainly right-wing and establishment figures "A"-"R". Creation dates: 1940s. Central Party records, Miscellaneous central subject files: The central subject files comprise materials generated by ad hoc committees or of unclear provenance at the time that the archives were catalogued. The series Fascism & Anti Fascism. [Subseries] CP/CENT/SUBJ/04/01, contains Leaflets including Speakers Notes No 4 "Jews take away the Britishers Jobs". [Subseries] CP/CENT/SUBJ/04/10 contains British Union of Fascists material (leaflets, etc.), 1930s. [Subseries] CP/CENT/SUBJ/04/11 contains German propaganda from the Fichte Association printed in English, 1930s. [Subseries] CP/CENT/SUBJ/04/12 contains various leaflets from other or unknown fascist organisations including the Imperial Fascist League & the Nationalist Association, 1920s & 1930s. [Subseries] CP/CENT/SUBJ/04/13 contains various cuttings, 1933-1937, reflecting on anti-fascist and fascist demonstrations at Olympia, Hyde Park & Cable Street among others. Includes copy of "The Eye" (Nov 1936). [Subseries] CP/CENT/SUBJ/04/14 contains various leaflets dealing with immediate post war fascism, 1940s-1950s. [Subseries] CP/CENT/SUBJ/04/16 contains leaflets, pamphlets, etc., 1960s-1980s, from various fascist groups including the Racial Preservation Society, the National Socialist Movement, the National Front, National Party, British National Party, Board of Deputies of Jewish Control, & National Front Ex-Servicemen's Association. [Subseries] CP/CENT/SUBJ/04/17 contains newspaper cuttings re various fascist & anti-fascist demonstrations, etc., 1973-1981.

Reference:

Daniel Tilles, British Fascist Antisemitism and Jewish Responses, 1932-40 (London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).

Websites with information:

http://www.communistpartyarchive.org.uk

http://www.communistpartyarchive.org.uk/9781851171354.php

http://ah.cheshire3.org/features/0505cpgb.html

Finding aid for Organisation Department:

http://www.microform.co.uk/guides/CP-CENT-ORG.pdf

Finding aid for Miscellaneous central subject files:

http://www.microform.co.uk/guides/CP-CENT-SUBJ.pdf

[0641] Communist Party of the United States of America Collection (CPUSA), 1919-1950's, MSS 357

Location: Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries, 100 Main Library, 366 W. Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI 48824