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Erik Bert papers, 1924-1980

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Abstract

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Marxist scholar and editor Herbert Joseph Putz written under the pseudonym Erik Bert.

At a Glance

Call No.: MS#0116
Bib ID 4078392 View CLIO record
Creator(s) Bert, Erik, 1904-1981; Putz, Herbert Joseph, 1904-1981
Title Erik Bert papers, 1924-1980
Physical Description 7 linear feet (16 boxes)
Language(s) English .
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Arrangement

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in two series.

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Scope and Content

Correspondence, manuscripts of book reviews and essays, conference notes and reports, book manuscripts, copy editing for other authors, notebooks, press releases, photographs, clippings and other printed materials.

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You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Erik Bert papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Related Archival Materials

Bert's agricultural manuscripts were given to the University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--Putz, Ruth. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1983.

Gift of Mrs. Ruth Putz, 1983.

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Processing Information

Papers Processed HR 10/--/83.

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2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

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History / Biographical Note

Biographical sketch

Erik Bert was the pseudonym of Herbert Joseph Putz-1981 (Columbia B.A., 1926, M.A., 1927), Marxist scholar and editor of "The Producers News" and the "Farmers National Weekly" for 40 years. He served on the editorial board of "The Daily Worker" and "The Daily World." He contributed many articles to "Political Affairs" the theoretical journal of the U.S. Communist Party, on agrarian reform, communism and Communist Party conferences, Czechoslovakia in 1968, civil rights, capitalism, and on other economic subjects.

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Series I: Subject File


Box 1 Agricultural Census of, 1969

Box 1 Agricultural Production in Postwar America

Box 1 Anthology (notes)

Box 1 The Automobile Business (master's thesis)

Box 1 Baron, Paul A. 5 The Political Economy of Growth (bk rev)

Box 1 Benson, Ezra Taft; Freedom to Farm (bk rev)

Box 1 Bert, Erik (misc.)

Box 1 Bert, Erik; "Veblin and Marx" (bk rev)

Box 1 Bert, Erik; "Vulgar Economy"

Box 1 Berthold, Lothar; (misc.)


Box 2 Brecht, Bertolt; Berlin (bk rev)

Box 2 Browder, Earl; Marx and America (bk rev)

Box 2 Burns, Arthur F.; The Business Cycle in a Changing World (bk rev)

Box 2 Carrillo, Santiago; "Eurocommunism" and the State (bk rev)

Box 2 Civil Rights Commission, U.S.

Box 2 Clark, B.H.5 The Tennessee Yeomen (bk rev)

Box 2 Clawson, Marion; Policy Directions for U.S., Agriculture (bk rev)

Box 2 Columbia Papers by Bert

Box 2 Commons, John R. 5 Monopoly Capitalism II (bk rev)


Box 3 Communist International (Pragues January, 1978)

Box 3 Communist Party Draft Number Two

Box 3 Communist Party Draft Program, (4 Folders)

Box 3 Communist Party Draft Resolution (1975)


Box 4 Communist Party Farm Program

Box 4 Communist Party Poverty Program

Box 4 Communist Party, USA

Box 4 Corruption in Government

Czechoslovakia

Box 4 General Material

Box 4 Articles by Bert

Box 4 Black Books

Box 4 Central Control and Auditing Commission

Box 4 Communist Party

Box 4 Communist Party's Fourteenth Congress, (2 Folders)


Box 5 Communist Party:"Lessons"

Box 5 Communist Party:Party Lecture

Box 5 Communist Party:Resolutions and Statements

Box 5 Correspondence

Box 5 Huzak

Box 5 L' Humanite

Box 5 Manuscripts and Notes

Box 5 Manuscripts by Others


Box 6 Miscellaneous

Box 6 Neues Deutschland

Box 6 1968

Box 6 Press Clippings, (2 Folders)

Box 6 Press Releases (Czech Embassy)

Box 6 Press Releases (Miscellaneous)

Box 6 Press Releases (Novosti)

Box 6 Press Releases (Pragopress)


Box 7 Press Releases (Rude Pravo)

Box 7 Press Releases (Tass)

Box 7 Press Releases (UPI)

Box 7 Since the Prague Spring

Box 7 Strougal and Lubomir

Box 7 Dialogue as Quid Pro Quo

Box 7 Diskin, Louis (letter)

Box 7 Dowd, Douglas; Thorstein Veblin (bk rev)

Box 7 Draft Main Political Solution

Box 7 Dyson, Lowell K.; (letter)

Box 7 Eurocommunism and Detente, (2 Folders)

Box 7 Eurocommunism (manuscripts I - III)


Box 8 Eurocommunism (manuscripts IV and V)

Box 8 Fabricant

Box 8 Falling Rate of Profit

Box 8 Foster; History of the CPUSA (notes)

Box 8 Galbraith, John K.; Economics and the Public Purpose (bk rev)

Box 8 Galbraith; The New Industrial State (bk rev)

Box 8 GDR Speech (June, 1980)

Box 8 Global Reach

Box 8 Gollwitzer, Helmut-(notes)

Box 8 Gronlunds, Laurence; The Cooperative Commonwealth (bk rev)


Box 9 Hall, Gus (Political Reports and Correspondences)

Box 9 Harrington, Michael; Socialism (bk rev)

Box 9 Harris, Lement (letter)

Box 9 Ihde, Horst (letter)

Box 9 "Herman Kriege, the California Democrats, and Marx and Engels" (report)

Box 9 Kuznets, Simon; Economic Growth of Nations (bk rev), (2 Folders)

Box 9 Labor and Agriculture (clippings from The Congressional Record)

Box 9 "Lenin on the United States"

Box 9 "Lessons"

Box 9 Lochman, Jan M.; Church in a Marxist Society (bk rev), (3 Folders)

Box 9 Loebl, Eugen; Humanomics (bk rev)


Box 10 Marek, Franz; Philosophy of World Revolution (bk rev) (letter)

Box 10 Marx, Karl

Box 10 Marx, Karl; Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (centennial report)

Box 10 Marx- Engels; Collected Works, vol Z and 7 (2 Folders)

Box 10 Mergers (notes by Bert)

Box 10 Miscellaneous

Box 10 Myerson comment by Bert

Box 10 Neo-Colonialism

Box 10 "Nixon, Revisionism, and the Communist Manifesto"

Box 10 Noyes, C.R.; A New Theory of Profits (bk rev)


Box 11 "The Panic of 1857" (academic thesis?)

Box 11 Plantation (report), (2 Folders)

Box 11 Ponomarev Pamphlet (review and correspondences)

Box 11 "The Political Bankruptcy of Maoism"

Box 11 Prague Seminar (CPUSA contribution by Bert)

Box 11 Putz, Nancy (playbills)

Box 11 Putz, Ruth (letters)

Box 11 Revisionism

Box 11 "The Road to Transcendental Marxism"

Box 11 Rochester, Anna; Lenin on the Agrarian Question (bk rev)

Box 11 Sakharov-Salisbury (bk revs)

Box 11 Schultz, T.W.; Transforming Traditional Agriculture (bk rev)

Box 11 Segre, Sergio (interview notes)

Box 11 Shover, Lement (letter)

Box 11 "60th Anniversary of the October Revolution"

Box 11 Soth, Lauren; Farm Troubles (bk rev)


Box 12 "State Monopoly, Capitalism, .and Agriculture"

Box 12 Transportation (2 Folders)

Box 12 "Trotsky"

Box 12 Veblin, T.; The Place of Science in Modern Civilization (bk

Box 12 "The Web of Financial Capital"

Box 12 Wechsberg, Joseph; The Voices (bk rev)

Box 12 Wheeler, G.S.; The Human Face of Socialism (bk rev)

Box 12 World Marxist Review Conference (1978 address)

Box 12 Yugoslavia (report of visit to)

Series II: Notebooks


Box 13 Notebooks 1 - 13


Box 14 Notebooks 14 - 23


Box 15 Notebooks (un-numbered)


Box 16 Stenography-type notebooks