Max Gordon Communist Party, USA Internal Documents Collection
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Max Gordon (1910-1990) was the (New York) City Editor of the Communist Pary USA's newspaper, the Daily Worker who sided with the unsuccessful social democratic reform faction during the 1956-1958 internal Party struggle in the aftermath of the famous "secret" speech in April 1956 by Nikita Khrushchev denouncing Stalin at the twentieth congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This small collection consists of internal policy statements official and unofficial, by local and nationalParty bodies or by leading members.
Historical/Biographical Note
Max Gordon (1910-1990) was the (New York) City Editor of the Communist Pary USA's newspaper, the Daily Worker who sided with the unsuccessful social democratic reform faction during the Party's 1956-1958 internal struggle in the aftermath of the famous "secret" speech in April 1956 by Nikita Khrushchev denouncing Stalin at the twentieth congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was born in Gloversville, N.Y., graduated from City College, was an organizer for the Party in the Albany, N.Y. area before joining the editorial staff of the Daily Worker in 1942.
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The collection is organized into one alphabetically arranged series.
Scope and Contents
This small collection consists of internal policy statements official and unofficial, by local and nationalParty bodies or by leading members. Notable individuals represented include A.B. Magil (on Yugoslavia) and James Jackson (on issues pertaining to African Americans). There are also documents from the Ohio Party organization and from a group of members of the Party's the Southern California District, and a press release issued in response to the 1958 resignation of Daily Worker editor John Gates.
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Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive has no information about copyright ownership for this collection and is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from it. Materials in this collection, which were created in ca.1956-1958, are expected to enter the public domain in 2078.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Nicholas Gordon in 1984. The accession number associated with this gift is 2009.089.
Provenance
Gift of Nicholas Gordon (son), September 17, 1984
