Betty Gannett Papers, 1929-1970

Appendix: List of Course Outlines, Lectures, and Notes as They Appear in the Collection

Course Outlines
Reel 1; Box 1, Folder 2 Study Course on the Communist Party, the Working Class and Industrial Concentration
Analysis of Scientific Socialism
Political Economy I
Political Economy
Dialectical Materialism
Bibliography on John Dewey and American Pragmatism

Lectures
Reel 1; Box 1, Folder 6 1936 The NRA -- An Organized Attack Upon the Workers
War Situation
Organizational Conferences in the State of California
Questions and Answers on the Role of the Communist Party
1936 Election
Paris Commune
1937 A New Socialist World Has Arisen
Uniting the American People Against Fascism
Control Tasks for Consolidation and Building the Party and the Circulation of the Western Worker in California
Organization Report
Report on Establishing a West Coast Newspaper
Address to California YCL Convention
Report to the Los Angeles CP
Report to the Industrial Section Membership
Political Feuds and Our Political Perspective
Report to the Los Angeles Membership Meeting
We Can and Must Keep the New Members
Report on Stalin's Mastering Bolshevism
Report on Central Committee Plenum
Reel 1; Box 1, Folder 7 1938 Report on Party Building to the California State Convention
The Supreme Court and the Fight of the People for Social Legislation
Report to Party Building Conference
Political Tasks of the CP
Report to the San Francisco Organizational Conference
Report on Political Activities of the Party
1939 Early Economic Policies of the Soviet Union
The Nature of the Soviet Union
The Truth About the Communists
Development and Theory of Marxism
History of the CPSU
The Threat of Fascism
Reel 1; Box 1, Folder 8 1940 Capitalist Production and Socialist Production
Two Systems--Capitalism and Socialism
The Study of Marxism-Leninism
Tactics of the CP
Capitalism in Crisis
Function of Marxist Schools
Introduction to Marxism-Leninism
Reel 1; Box 1, Folder 9 1941 Development of Marxism
Introduction to Marxism-Leninism
1943 Teheran, Cairo, and Moscow Conference
The Development of the Soviet Union
Science of Marxism-Leninism
1944 Contrast Between the Dialectics of Marx and Hegel
The Achievements of the Soviet Union
1945 Struggle Against Browderism
Report on Organizational and Political Consolidation of CP
Reel 2; Box 2, Folder 1 1946 Democracy in the Communist Party
Fundamentals of Marxism
Necessity of Studying Marxism-Leninism
The Struggle Against Browderism
Industrial Concentration
Plan for Building the Press and the Party
The Legacy of Lenin
History of CPUSA
The Election of 1946
Reel 2; Box 2, Folder 2 1947 Marx's Theory of Historical Materialism
Short History of CPUSA
Organization of Clubs
Lenin
Truman Doctrine
The Struggle Against Revisionism and Reaction
Expansionist Policy of the U.S.
American Imperialism
Danger Facing the American People
Reel 2; Box 2, Folder 3 1948 Report to the Industrial Division of the N.Y. State CP
Hostility Against the Soviet Union
Accelerated Offense Against the Communist Party/Democracy
Revisionism and the YCL
Renewed Attacks on Communism
Report of National Committee Meeting
American Foreign Policy and Election of 1948
Attacks on the Left/Wallace
Report of New York Meeting
Reel 2; Box 2, Folder 4 1950 Address to Newly Elected Officers of Kings Highway Club
1951 Oppression of Negroes
Lenin
Report on Youth Work
1952 Deliberations of 19th Congress on CPUSA
Reingart's Review of Culture in a Changing World
19th Party Congress
Reel 2; Box 2, Folder 5 1953 Resolution of the Party
1954 Report on the Geneva Conference
Role of U.S. Imperialism
American Foreign Policy
1955 Some New Thoughts on the Women Question (not by Gannett)
1957 The Achievement of the Soviet Union
Program of the Yugoslavian Communist Party
Reel 3; Box 2, Folder 6 1958 Experience at Alderson
Strategy for Transition to Socialism
Communist Manifesto
Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
1959 The Spread of Socialism
Steel Worker's Strike
Prospects of Peace
Khrushchev's Visit
1960 Transition to Automation in the United States and the Soviet Union
The United Nations and the Struggle for Peace
Peace Campaign
Introduction to Scientific Socialism
Production Relations
Scientific Socialism
Revisionism and Capitalist Criticism of Marxism
Yugoslavia
Resolution of the N.Y. State CP
Statement by 81 Marxist-Leninist Parties
Reel 3; Box 3, Folder 1 1961 Historical Materialism
United Nations
Marxist Analysis of the Causes of War
Socialism in the Soviet Union
The Threat of War and the German Question
Progressive Evolution of Society
The Present Epoch of American Capitalism
Economic Program of the Soviet Union
Introduction to Marxism
General Crisis of Capitalism and the New World Epoch
Bay of Pigs
Scientific Basis of Socialism
The Changing World
Reel 3; Box 3, Folder 2 1962 Continuing Contradictions of American Capitalism
The Struggle Against the McCarran Act
Socialism and Communism
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The McCarran Act
The Elections of 1962
The Continuing Crisis of Capitalism
The Common Market
Reel 4; Box 3, Folder 3 1962 Revisionist Views of Capitalism
State Monopoly Capitalism
Soviet-U.S. Relations
Report by Roger Garaudy
Imperialism
81 Party Statement
International Conflicts Between Capitalism and Communism
Cuba and the Missile Crisis
Reel 4; Box 3, Folder 4 1963 Imperialism and the General Crisis of Capitalism
U.S. Foreign Policy in Europe and Latin America
State Monopoly Capitalism
False Chinese Claims that CP is Bernsteinian
Peaceful Coexistence
The Test Ban Treaty
Struggle for Equality
Tripartite Treaty
Political Consequences of the Kennedy Assassination
Reel 4; Box 3, Folder 5 1963 Berlin Question
Marxism in Practice
Commodity Production
Chinese Position on Imperialism
Thaw in the Cold War
American Involvement in Vietnam
International Politics
Problems Confronting the Working Class
National Liberation in the Third World
Struggle Against Colonialism
Reel 5; Box 4, Folder 1 1964 Ideological Split in Marxist World
National Question in Former Colonies
Supremacy of the United States in the World
Chinese Accusations Against CPSU
Editorial on U.S.-Soviet Relations
Need for a Marxist Party in the U.S.
1964 Presidential Elections
Transitional Period to Socialism
Nature of Imperialism -- War or Peace
Errors of Chinese Leadership
1964 Elections
Negro Struggle for Equality
Reel 5; Box 4, Folder 2 1965 Marxist Confrontation with U.S. Imperialism
The Struggle of Black People
Colonial Liberation
Building a Marxist-Leninist Party
Role of U.S. Imperialism
Draft Program of CP
1966 American Involvement in Vietnam
Necessity of a Political Struggle by the Working Class
Jews in the Soviet Union
Vietnam and the Crisis in U.S. Foreign Policy
Productive Relations
Reel 5; Box 4, Folder 3 1967 U.S. Imperialism After 1945
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Soviet Union
Nature of Socialism and Communism
Soviet Economic Progress
1968 Marxism and Religion
Labour Production
The U.S. Presidential Election
Marxist Educational Plan
Reel 5; Box 4, Folder 4 Communist Party Statement of the Communist Party
Revolutionary Strategy
Misconceptions About Communism
Democratic Centralism
The Tasks of the Press in the Shops and Trade Unions
Relationship of Theory and Practice in CP
Principles of Party Organization
Morality in Marriage
The Morality Demanded of a Marxist
Introduction of Herbert Aptheber
Browder Revisionism
Organization in Clubs
Reel 6; Box 4, Folder 5 Economics Historical Development of Work Alienation
Development of Labor
Abstract and Concrete Labor
Measurement of the Degrss of Exploitation of Workers
Theory of Reproduction and Circulation of the Aggregate Social Capital
Law of the Falling Tendency of the Rate of Profit
Profit and Price of Production
Stalin's Theory of Economic Crisis
Loan Capital and Credit
Profit and Price of Production
Law of Capitalist Accumulation
General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
Reel 6; Box 4, Folder 6 Economics General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
Profit and Price of Production
Capitalist Society
General Crisis of Capitalism
Nature of Exploitation
Capital and Surplus Value
Theory of Surplus Value
General Law of Accumulation
Loan Capital
Inflation and British Currency
Commercial Profits
Reel 6; Box 5, Folder 1 Economics Incentive Funds in Enterprises
General Crisis of Capitalism
Drive for Maximum Profits
Economic Law of Socialism
Introduction to Political Economy
Introduction to Political Economy (different article)
Productive Relations under Socialism
Monopolies
Socialist Reproduction
Money
Marxist Law of Value and Price
Commodity
Socialist Construction
Theory of Basis and Superstructure
Basis and Superstructure
Basis and Superstructure (different article)
Reel 7; Box 5, Folder 2 Economics Basis and Superstructure
Surplus Value
Marx's Law of Labor and Production
Materialism
Political Economy
Theory of Rent
Theory of Imperialism
Character of Social Labor and Labor Production
Marxian Teachings on Wages
Wages under Capitalism
Wages under Capitalism (different article)
Marxian Theory of Wages
Imperialism
Imperialism (different article)
Imperialism (different article)
Imperialism (different article)
Capitalist and Socialist Production
Outline for a Course in Political Economy
Reel 7; Box 5, Folder 3 History Lincoln
Life of Sorge
Brief History of the Communist Party
History of CPUSA
Guide for the Study of the History of the CPSU
The Communist Party -- The Vanguard of the Working Class
History and Development of Marxism
Historical Development of the American Working Class
Communist Manifesto
Reel 8; Box 5, Folder 4 Philosophy/Scientific Socialism The Dialectical Method
Law of Dialectics
Dialectical Materialism
Socialist Humanism
Materialistic Basis of Marxian Socialism
Scientific Basis of Marxism
Introduction to Marxism
Basis of Marxian Morality and Ethics
Marxist Meaning of Freedom
Dialectical Materialism
The Science of Dialectics and Its Chief Laws
Cultural Revolution in the USSR
Marxist Analysis of the Causes of War
Reel 8; Box 5, Folder 5 Philosophy/Scientific Socialism Marxist Theory of the Cause of War
Social Democratism
Dialectic as a Theory of Knowledge
Capitalist Transformation to Socialism
Marxism-Leninism as a Developing Science
Paths to Socialism
Theories of Crises
Marxist Theory of Crisis
Role of the State in the Proletarian Dictatorship
Theory of Proletariat Revolution
Scientific Basis of Socialism
Reel 8; Box 6, Folder 1 Philosophy/Scientific Socialism Marxist Theory of War
Characteristic of Nations
Socialism
Introduction to Marxism-Leninism
The Theory of Crisis
The State and Fight for Democracy
Proletarian Revolution and the State
Marxist Analysis of the Causes of War
Marxist Analysis of Class
Marxist Analysis of Class (different article)
Reel 8; Box 6, Folder 2 Philosophy/Scientific Socialism The Study of Marxism-Leninism
Idealistic Philosophy
Theory of Knowledge
Historical Materialism
Historical Materialism (different article)
Logic
Marxist Philosophy
Dialectical Materialism
The Materialist Conception of History
Theory of State
Reel 9; Box 6, Folder 3 Politics Peaceful Coexistence
Predominance of the Economic Struggle in the U.S.
The Cold War
Failure of American Foreign Policy
Peaceful Coexistence
Changing Structure of the Working Class
Changes in Soviet Government
Reel 9; Box 6, Folder 4 Partial Lectures

Notes
Reel 9; Box 6, Folder 7 1929 Stalin's Speeches on the CPUSA
1931 Wages
1934 17th Party Congress
1936 Fascism
Logical Positivism
1940 Early Phases of World War II
Two Worlds--A Contrast of Two Economic Systems
Two Worlds--A Contrast of Two Economic Systems (different set of notes)
Reel 10; Box 7, Folder 1 1946 Rubinstein's Article -- “Consciousness in Light of Dialectical Materialism”
1950 Text of Soviet Reply to British Note
Koustautinov's “The Role of Social Consciousness in the Development of Soviet Society”
Registration and Worker Subscription Campaign
1951 Chekobova's “Stalin's Theory of Language”
1952-1960 Cuba
1953 Kamari --Science and Superstructure
1958 State Monopoly Capitalism and Revolution
Significance of Geneva
1959 Varga's Article “Crisis and the Working Class”
Burn's Article “New Features in British Capitalism”
Political Economy
Reel 10; Box 7, Folder 2 1960 Hook's Article “Welfare State”
China
Soviet Industrial and Technological Progress
United Nations
Erich Fromm
1961 Notes from Marxism Today
1962 International Cartels
The Common Market
Garaudy
1963 Trade
Castro's Speech
Soviet Foreign Policy
Article -- “Peaceful Coexistence”
Leontyev's Article “Economic Science and The Ideological Struggle”
Reel 10; Box 7, Folder 3 1964 Plenary Meeting of CPSU
National Liberation
Panama
Panama-U.S. Controversy
1964-1966 Middle East
Reel 10; Box 7, Folder 4 1966 The Soviet Union and the Jewish Question
1966-1967 Middle East War
1966 Hodge's Article Criticizing Marxism
Vietnam
Articles on Southeast Asia
Marxist Philosophy
Rumyautsev's Article “Sociology and the Life of Socialism”
Articles on Vietnam
Articles on Vietnam (different article)
Reel 11; Box 7, Folder 5 1967 Morning Star Article on Middle East War
Articles on War in the Middle East
China/Maoism
Economics
Middle East
1968 The New Left
Reel 11; Box 7, Folder 6 Communist Party Theory/Practice and Parliamentary Tactics
CP Progress
Chinese CP Leaders
CPUSA in Post-Browder Period
Soviet Union
Trotskyism
Stalin's Remarks at the 18th Party Congress
Quotes from Stalin at the 17th Party Congress
Character and Theory of CP
Organization and Strategy
Role of Party
Stalin Interview
Browder on Marx and America
Revisionism
Struggle Against Revisionism
Reel 11; Box 8, Folder 1 Communist Party Religion in the Soviet Union
Catholic Church -- Africa, Soviet Union, etc.
Religion in the Soviet Union
Religion in the Soviet Union (different set of notes)
Studying Communism
Revisionism
Reel 11; Box 8, Folder 2 Economics Commodity
Theory of Crisis
State Monopoly Capitalism
New Technology and Labor
Labor Power
New Developments in Capitalism
Marxian Theory of Crisis
Exploiting Societies
Industrial Reserve Army
Political Economy
Political Economy (different set of notes)
Socialism
Reel 12; Box 8, Folder 3 Economics Base/Superstructure and Role of State
Base and Superstructure
Transition to Socialism
Browder and Post-War Economic Perspectives
Economic Development
Socialist Transition to Communism
Inflation
Economics
Cyclical Crisis
Reel 12; Box 8, Folder 4 History Marx and the National Liberation
War Issue in the Second International
Trotskyism and the 4th International
Communist Manifesto
Communist Manifesto (different set of notes)
Contemporary Critics of the Mexican War
Lenin and Revolution
Reel 12; Box 8, Folder 5 Philosophy/Scientific Socialism Marxism-Leninism
C. Wright Mills
Art and Realism
Social Realism in Prose and Literature
Scientific Socialism
Social Democration
Subjective Utility Theories
Philosophers and Philosophical Schools
Humanism
Reel 13; Box 8, Folder 6 Philosophy/Scientific Socialism Philosophy and Dialectical Thinking
Luperic's “Sartre and the Communists”
Crowforth's Logical Empiricism
Conger's Pragmatism and the Physical World
Seller's Aristotelian Philosophies of Mind
Philosophy
Kirk's Article -- “Is Social Science Scientific”
Historical and Anthropological Notes
Historical Materialism/Social Formations
Marxist Theorists
Science
Historical Developments
National Question
Classes in Society
Role of the State
The Arts
Reel 13; Box 9, Folder 1 Philosophy/Scientific Socialism Idealism vs. Materialism
Marxism and Natural Science
Dialectical Materialism and Idealistic Materialism
Idealism
Dialectical Materialism
Socialist Humanism
Maublanc's Article -- “Freedom, the Individual and Marxism”
Scientific Socialism
Family and Women
The Contradictions of Capitalism and the Nature of Science
Social Formations
Socialism
Religion
Reel 13; Box 9, Folder 2 Philosophy/Scientific Socialism Philosophical Notebook
Reel 14; Box 9, Folder 3 Politics China -- Quotes by Mao Tse-tung and Stalin
Multilateral Nuclear Force
People's War
Latin America
Mao on Combatting Liberalism
National Liberation Movements in Third World
Minorities in U.S.
Peaceful Coexistence/War and Peace
Far East/South East Asia
Anti-Russian Propaganda
Agitation by Women
Abolition of Prisons
Reel 14; Box 9, Folder 4 General Notes and Quotes re: Lenin
George Thompson
Lenin
Reel 15; Box 9, Folder 5 General Stalin on Leninism
Stalin -- “What is a Nation”
Reel 15; Box 10, Folder 1 General Marx and Engels
John Lewis
Marx, Lenin, Engels
Notes from the Works of Engels, Marx, Lenin, Stalin
Reel 16; Box 10, Folder 3 Notebook