David A. Shannon Papers, 1955-1958

Contents List

Container Title
Series: Manuscript Drafts
Box   1
Unedited manuscript
Later chapter drafts without revisions
Box   2
Folder   1
Preface, Part I: Chapter I, “New Leader and New Line”
Box   2
Folder   2
Chapter II, “Party Line for America”
Box   2
Folder   3
Chapter III, “Party Organization, Party Strength, and Party Life”
Box   2
Folder   4
Part II: Chapter IV, “Creating Gideon's Army-the Progressive Party”
Box   2
Folder   5
Chapter V, “Professional Soldiers in a Campaign that Failed”
Box   2
Folder   6
Part III: Chapter VI, “The Party and Anti-Communism” [Chapter VII missing]
Box   2
Folder   7
Part IV: Chapter VIII, “Slow Thaw in the Cold War”
Box   2
Folder   8
Chapter IX, “Tarnished Heroes: Stalin and Foster”
Box   2
Folder   9
Chapter X, “Hungary and Further Disillusion”
Box   2
Folder   10
Chapter XI, “Conclusion: An Impotent Party”
Box   2
Folder   11
Footnotes
Box   2
Folder   12
Bibliographical Essay
Early chapter drafts without revisions
Box   2
Folder   13
Preface and Chapter I
Box   2
Folder   14
Chapter II, “Domestic Line”
Box   2
Folder   15
Chapter III, “The Party's organization, activities and special problems in the immediate postwar period”
Drafts with revisions by persons other than Shannon
Box   3
Folder   1
Preface, Chapters I through Chapter II with drafter's comments
Box   3
Folder   2
Preface, Chapters I through III with Olive Golden's comments
Drafts with revisions by Shannon
Box   3
Folder   3
Preface and Chapter I
Box   3
Folder   4
Chapter II, “The Domestic Line”
Box   3
Folder   5
Chapter III, “The Party's Organization, Activities and Special Problems in the Immediate Postwar Period”
Box   3
Folder   6
Beginning for Part II, notes: Chapter IV, “Professional Soldiers in Gideon's Army”
Box   3
Folder   7
Chapter V, “The Outward Reaction”
Box   3
Folder   8
“A very tentative and incomplete outline or prospectus of a book on the history of the Communist Party, 1945-circa 1955,” February 24, 1956
Series: Research Files
Subseries: Notes
Box   3
Folder   9-12
General Notes, 1924-1957, undated
Box   4
Folder   1
Anti-Communism, 1947, 1951
Box   4
Folder   2
Browder, Earl, 1945-1956
Box   4
Folder   3
Communist Party and Labor, Trade Unions, 1946-1956
Box   4
Folder   4
Communist Party and McCarthyism, 1946-1954
Box   4
Folder   5
Forecasts of imminent depression, 1946-1948
Box   4
Folder   6
General Line and Foreign Policy, 1943-1949
Box   4
Folder   7
Last chapter items (general), 1953-1958
Box   4
Folder   8
Left splinters and expulsions, 1946-1956
Box   4
Folder   9
Party Life, 1946-1956
Box   4
Folder   10
Party Organization, 1945-1956
Box   5
Folder   1
Party Schools, 1947-1956
Box   5
Folder   2-3
Peace [relations with Korea and China], 1949-1952
Box   5
Folder   4-5
Political Action, 1948-1956
Box   5
Folder   6
Press indications of strength, circulation, 1947-1956
Box   5
Folder   7-8
“Slow Thaw in the Cold War” notes [for Chapter VIII]
Box   5
Folder   9
Smith Act, 1947-1953
Box   6
Folder   1-4
Third Party, 1945-1956
Box   6
Folder   5
Tickets and Elections, 1948-1955
Box   6
Folder   6
Varga, Eugene, 1946-1956
Box   6
Folder   7
White Chauvinism, Negro [African-American] Policy, 1946-1956
Subseries: Clippings and Pamphlets
Box   7
Folder   1
“American Communists since the Khrushchev Report: a historian's appraisal” [essay], undated
Box   7
Folder   2
“The American Jewish Committee. Library of Jewish Information: 'The Communist Party U.S.A., in crisis'” [report], undated
Box   7
Folder   3
Anti-communism, 1952-1956
Box   7
Folder   4
Congressional Committees, 1955-1956
Box   7
Folder   5
Communist Party (on C.P. directly), 1955-1956
Box   7
Folder   6-7
Communist Party U.S.A. Convention [notes, schedules, speeches], 1957 February
Box   7
Folder   8
Communist Party U.S.A. Convention [post-convention notes], 1957
Box   7
Folder   9-10
Communist Party Crisis, 1956-1957
Box   7
Folder   11
Communist Party Politics, 1956
Box   7
Folder   12
Communist Party and Unions, 1955-1956
Box   7
Folder   13
Communist Party Youth Activities, 1955-1956
Box   7
Folder   14
Gates, John [Articles by Gates from the New York Post], 1958
Box   7
Folder   15
General Federal Security, 1955-1956
Box   7
Folder   16
Fund for the Republic miscellany, 1954-1956
Box   7
Folder   17
Immunity Act, 1954-1956
Box   8
Folder   1
Miscellaneous, 1948-1957
Box   8
Folder   2
Rosenberg and Sobell Case, 1952-1955
Box   8
Folder   3
Russian and American Relations, 1955
Box   8
Folder   4
Smith Act Cases, 1955-1956
Box   8
Folder   5
Subversive Activities Control Board, 1955-1956
Box   8
Folder   6
Tax Affairs, 1956
Box   8
Folder   7
Twentieth Congress-New Line, 1955-1956
Series: Correspondence
Box   8
Folder   8
General Correspondence, 1956
Box   8
Folder   9
A.D.A. [Americans for Democratic Action], 1956
Box   8
Folder   10
A.H.A. [American History Association], 1956
Box   8
Folder   11
Baldwin, C.P., 1955-1956
Box   8
Folder   12
Fund for the Republic, 1955
Box   8
Folder   13
MacDougall, Curtis D., 1955-1956
Box   8
Folder   14
Wallace, Henry A., 1956