Raja Dunaevskaja Papers

Period 1924-1987
Total size  8 microfilms
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Russia; emigrated to the USA as a child; secretary of Lev Trotsky in Mexico 1937-1938; advocated a humanist interpretation of Marxism after her break with Trotskyism in the 1950s; active in the women's liberation movement; author of `Marxism and Freedom' 1958.

Content

Notes; texts of lectures and outlines of speeches; manuscripts of articles and reviews for News and Letters and other periodicals; correspondence with Erich Fromm, George A. Kelly, Herbert Marcuse, Arnold Miller, Natalija Sedova and Lev Trotsky; documents on her publications, including her translations of writings of Trotsky and others; documents concerning the Socialist Workers Party.

Location of originals

Originals in the Wayne State University Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Detroit

Finding aid

Inventory (on paper) available in IISH-reading room.