Erik Bert papers, 1924-1980

Erik Bert papers, 1924-1980

Summary Information

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
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
7 linear feet (16 boxes)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
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Description

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.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in two series.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

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.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Processed HR 10/--/83.

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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.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Book reviews
Clippings (Information Artifacts)
Correspondence
Essays
Manuscripts (documents)
Notebooks
Photographic prints
Press releases
Reports
Speeches (documents)
Name
Berthold, Lothar
Communist International
Communist Party of the United States of America
Subject
Agriculture and politics
Communism
Journalists
Philosophy, Marxist

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