Shachtman, Max, 1903-1972
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1903 - 1972
Biography
Max Shachtman (1903-1972), writer, editor, political theoretician, and a leader in the communist, Trotskyist, and socialist movements.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Dwight Macdonald papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 730
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, printed material, photographs, audiotapes, and memorabilia documenting the personal life and professional career of Dwight Macdonald. Macdonald's literary career, political activities, teaching and speaking engagements, and personal life are detailed. Major subjects represented in the papers include: communism and the Trotskyite movement, journalism and publishing, American social and political life (1920s-1970s), pacifism, and the...
Dates:
1865-1984, bulk 1920-1978
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Dwight Macdonald papers
Max Shachtman correspondence with Leon Trotsky
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 297
Abstract:
46 TLS and 1 ALS from Leon Trotsky to Max Shachtman. 17 carbons of letters from Shachtman to Trotsky, including 1 ALS and 16 TLS from Trotsky to third parties, and third party correspondence. Concerns the Communist opposition in the 1930s, especially in the United States.
Dates:
1930-[1953]
Bernard Wolfe papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 831
Abstract:
The collection includes correspondence, writings and research material, photographs, printed material, and personal papers relating to American author Bernard Wolfe. There is correspondence, including incoming and outgoing letters, with family, friends, writers, publishers, editors, and labor organizations. Individual corrrespondents include: Pearl Buck, Marcel Duhamel, Dwight MacDonald, Henry Miller, A. J. Muste, John Crowe Ranson, Harry Ross, and Wolfe's brother Albert; there is a...
Dates:
1920s-1998
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- Film criticism 1
- Journalism 1
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- Motion pictures -- Reviews 1
- New international; a monthly organ of revolutionary Marxism 1
- Photographic prints 1
- Popular culture -- United States 1
- Radicalism 1
- Socialism 1
- Socialism -- United States -- Societies, etc. 1
- United States -- Intellectual life 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
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