League of American Writers, the Glossary

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1. 98 relations: Albert Maltz, Alexander Trachtenberg, Alfred Kreymborg, Anti-fascism, Anti-war movement, Archibald MacLeish, Arthur Miller, Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations, Bancroft Library, Boston, Capitalism, Carnegie Hall, Chicago, Clarence Hathaway, Collective security, Communist International, Communist Party USA, Dashiell Hammett, Donald Ogden Stewart, Earl Browder, Ed Lacy, Eleanor Flexner, Elsa Gidlow, Ernest Hemingway, Erskine Caldwell, Executive Order 10450, Fascism, Fellow traveller, Francis Biddle, Francisco Franco, Franklin Folsom, Front organization, Genevieve Taggard, Gertrude Atherton, Granville Hicks, Harold Clurman, I. F. Stone, International Publishers, James T. Farrell, John Howard Lawson, John Reed Clubs, John Steinbeck, Joseph Freeman (writer), Joseph Stalin, Josephine Herbst, Journalist, Kenneth Burke, Langston Hughes, Lawrence Treat, League of American Writers, ... Expand index (48 more) »

2. 1935 establishments in the United States
3. Arts organizations disestablished in the 20th century
4. Arts organizations established in 1935
5. Communist Party USA mass organizations
6. The arts and politics

Albert Maltz

Albert Maltz (October 28, 1908 – April 26, 1985) was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter.

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Alexander Trachtenberg

Alexander "Alex" Trachtenberg (23 November 1884 – 26 December 1966) was an American publisher of radical political books and pamphlets, founder and manager of International Publishers of New York.

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Alfred Kreymborg

Alfred Francis Kreymborg (December 10, 1883 – August 14, 1966) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist.

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Anti-fascism

Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals.

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Anti-war movement

An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict.

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Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry.

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Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater.

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Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations

The United States Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations (AGLOSO) was a list drawn up on April 3, 1947 at the request of the United States Attorney General (and later Supreme Court justice) Tom C. Clark.

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Bancroft Library

The Bancroft Library is the primary special-collections library of the University of California, Berkeley.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Clarence Hathaway

Clarence A. "Charlie" Hathaway (8 Jan 1892 – 23 January 1963) was an activist in the Minnesota trade union movement and a prominent leader of the Communist Party of the United States from the 1920s through the early 1940s.

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Collective security

Collective security is a multi-lateral security arrangement between states in which each state in the institution accepts that an attack on one state is the concern of all and merits a collective response to threats by all.

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Communist International

The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was an international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism, and which was led and controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.

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Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories.

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Donald Ogden Stewart

Donald Ogden Stewart (November 30, 1894 – August 2, 1980) was an American writer and screenwriter best known for his sophisticated golden age comedies and melodramas such as The Philadelphia Story (based on the play by Philip Barry), Tarnished Lady and Love Affair.

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Earl Browder

Earl Russell Browder (May 20, 1891 – June 27, 1973) was an American politician, spy for the Soviet Union, communist activist and leader of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

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Ed Lacy

Ed Lacy (August 25, 1911 - January 7, 1968), born Leonard S. Zinberg, was an American writer of crime and detective fiction.

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Eleanor Flexner

Eleanor Flexner (October 4, 1908 – March 25, 1995) was an American independent scholar and pioneer in what was to become the field of women's studies.

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Elsa Gidlow

Elsa Gidlow (29 December 1898 – 8 June 1986) was a British-born, Canadian-American poet, freelance journalist, philosopher and humanitarian.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.

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Erskine Caldwell

Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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Executive Order 10450

President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10450 on April 27, 1953.

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Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

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Fellow traveller

A fellow traveller (also fellow traveler) is a person who is intellectually sympathetic to the ideology of a political organization, and who co-operates in the organization's politics, without being a formal member.

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Francis Biddle

Francis Beverley Biddle (May 9, 1886 – October 4, 1968) was an American lawyer and judge who was the United States Attorney General during World War II.

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Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.

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Franklin Folsom

Franklin Brewster Folsom (21 July 1907 – 30 April 1995) was an American writer of popular books, many for children and young people, on archaeology, anthropology, and other subjects – he had over 80 titles published both under his own name and various pseudonyms – and a pro-Soviet political activist.

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Front organization

A front organization is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as intelligence agencies, organized crime groups, terrorist organizations, secret societies, banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy groups, or corporations.

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Genevieve Taggard

Genevieve Taggard (November 28, 1894 – November 8, 1948) was an American poet.

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Gertrude Atherton

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American writer.

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Granville Hicks

Granville Hicks (September 9, 1901 – June 18, 1982) was an American Marxist and, later, anti-Marxist novelist, literary critic, educator, and editor.

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Harold Clurman

Harold Edgar Clurman (September 18, 1901 – September 9, 1980) was an American theatre director and drama critic.

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I. F. Stone

Isidor Feinstein Stone (December 24, 1907 – June 18, 1989) was an American investigative journalist, writer, and author.

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International Publishers

International Publishers is a book publishing company based in New York City, specializing in Marxist works of economics, political science, and history.

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James T. Farrell

James Thomas Farrell (February 27, 1904 – August 22, 1979) was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet.

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John Howard Lawson

John Howard Lawson (September 25, 1894 – August 11, 1977) was an American writer, specializing in plays and screenplays.

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John Reed Clubs

The John Reed Clubs (1929–1935), often referred to as John Reed Club (JRC), were an American federation of local organizations targeted towards Marxist writers, artists, and intellectuals, named after the American journalist and activist John Reed. League of American Writers and John Reed Clubs are communist Party USA mass organizations.

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John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer.

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Joseph Freeman (writer)

Joseph Freeman (1897–1965) was an American writer and magazine editor.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

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Josephine Herbst

Josephine Herbst (March 5, 1892 – January 28, 1969) was an American writer and journalist, active from 1923 to near the time of her death.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public.

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Kenneth Burke

Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory.

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Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.

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Lawrence Treat

Lawrence Arthur Goldstone (1903–1998), better known by his pen name, Lawrence Treat, was an American mystery writer, a pioneer of the genre of novels that became known as police procedurals.

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League of American Writers

The League of American Writers was an association of American novelists, playwrights, poets, journalists, and literary critics launched by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) in 1935. League of American Writers and League of American Writers are 1935 establishments in the United States, American writers' organizations, arts organizations disestablished in the 20th century, arts organizations established in 1935, communist Party USA mass organizations and the arts and politics.

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Leon Trotsky

Lev Davidovich Bronstein (– 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist.

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Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist views and political activism.

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List of members of the League of American Writers

The League of American Writers was a so-called "mass organization" initiated by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) in 1935 and terminated in January 1943.

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Literary criticism

A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

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Louis Untermeyer

Louis Untermeyer (October 1, 1885 – December 18, 1977) was an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor.

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Malcolm Cowley

Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic.

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Max Eastman

Max Forrester Eastman (January 4, 1883 – March 25, 1969) was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society, a poet and a prominent political activist.

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May Day

May Day is a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May, around halfway between the Northern Hemisphere's Spring equinox and June solstice.

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Meridel Le Sueur

Meridel Le Sueur (February 22, 1900, Murray, Iowa – November 14, 1996, Hudson, Wisconsin) was an American writer associated with the proletarian literature movement of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Microform

A microform is a scaled-down reproduction of a document, typically either photographic film or paper, made for the purposes of transmission, storage, reading, and printing.

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Mike Gold

Michael Gold (April 12, 1894 – May 14, 1967) was the pen-name of Jewish American writer Itzok Isaac Granich.

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Millen Brand

Millen Brand (January 19, 1906 – March 19, 1980) was an American writer and poet.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.

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Moissaye Joseph Olgin

Moissaye Joseph Olgin (24 March 1878 – 22 November 1939) was a Ukrainian-born writer, journalist, and translator in the early 20th century.

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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with a secret protocol that partitioned between them or managed the sovereignty of the states in Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Romania.

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Morgen Freiheit

Morgen Freiheit (original title: מאָרגן־פרײהײט; English: Morning Freedom) was a New York City-based daily Yiddish language newspaper affiliated with the Communist Party, USA, founded by Moissaye Olgin in 1922.

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Moscow trials

The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin.

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Myra Page

Dorothy Markey (born Dorothy Page Gary, 1897–1993), known by the pen name Myra Page, was a 20th-century American communist writer, journalist, union activist, and teacher. | first.

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Nathanael West

Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American writer and screenwriter.

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New Masses

New Masses (1926–1948) was an American Marxist magazine closely associated with the Communist Party USA.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Center

New York City Center (previously known as the Mecca Temple, City Center of Music and Drama, and the New York City Center 55th Street Theater) is a performing arts center at 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Over There

"Over There" is a 1917 song written by George M. Cohan that was popular with the United States military and public during both world wars.

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Party line (politics)

In politics, "the line", "the party line", or "the lines to take" is an idiom for a political party or social movement's canon agenda, as well as ideological elements specific to the organization's partisanship.

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Paul de Kruif

Paul Henry de Kruif (rhyming with "life") (March 2, 1890 – February 28, 1971) was an American microbiologist and writer.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Poet

A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.

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Popular front

A popular front is "any coalition of working-class and middle-class parties", including liberal and social democratic ones, "united for the defense of democratic forms" against "a presumed Fascist assault".

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Second Spanish Republic

The Spanish Republic, commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic, was the form of democratic government in Spain from 1931 to 1939.

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Sectarianism

Sectarianism is a debated concept.

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Shaemas O'Sheel

Shaemas O'Sheel (September 19, 1886 – April 2, 1954) was an Irish American poet and critic.

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Sonia Raiziss

Sonia Raiziss Giop (October 13, 1906 – March 19, 1994) was an American poet, critic, and translator.

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Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Spanish Earth

The Spanish Earth is a 1937 anti-fascist film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the democratically elected Republicans, whose forces included a wide range from the political left like communists, socialists, anarchists, to moderates like centrists, and liberalist elements.

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Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.

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Thomas Mann

Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

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Union of Soviet Writers

The Union of Soviet Writers, USSR Union of Writers, or Soviet Union of Writers (translit) was a creative union of professional writers in the Soviet Union.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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Upton Sinclair

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California.

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Van Wyck Brooks

Van Wyck Brooks (February 16, 1886 – May 2, 1963) was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian.

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Waldo Frank

Waldo David Frank (August 25, 1889 – January 9, 1967) was an American novelist, historian, political activist, and literary critic, who wrote extensively for The New Yorker and The New Republic during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician of Latin American descent closely associated with modernism and imagism.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

1935 establishments in the United States

• AFCA Coach of the Year Award
• Academy Award for Best Original Score
• Aid to Families with Dependent Children
• American Amateur Baseball Congress
• American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project
• American Football League (1936)
• American Society of Plant Taxonomists
• American Youth Congress
• Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
• California Pacific International Exposition half dollar
• Catholic War Veterans
• Congress of Industrial Organizations
• Connecticut Tercentenary half dollar
• Dell Horoscope
• Drought Relief Service
• FBI National Academy
• Federal Aviation Commission
• Federal Music Project
• Federal Writers' Project
• Frontier Conference
• Heisman Trophy
• Historical Records Survey
• Horror Stories (magazine)
• Hudson Sesquicentennial half dollar
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• Jacobs Blocking Trophy
• League of American Writers
• Meyerton, Baker Island
• Mickey Mouse Magazine
• Midwest Football League (1935–1940)
• National Association of Counties
• Northwest Football League
• Old Spanish Trail half dollar
• Pennsylvania Young Democrats
• Railroad Retirement Board
• Resettlement Administration
• Revolutionary Workers League (Oehlerite)
• Rural Utilities Service
• Scholastic Rowing Association of America
• The Reconstructionist Journal
• The Sky (magazine)
• This Week (magazine)
• U.S. Route 287
• U.S. Route 79
• US Youth Soccer National Championships
• United Auto Workers
• United States Savings Bonds
• Workers Alliance of America
• Your Esso Reporter

Arts organizations disestablished in the 20th century

• Ad Hoc Committee of Women Artists
• Amaravella
• Anonima group
• Art Workers' Coalition
• Artists' Union of the USSR
• Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia
• Association of Writers of Yugoslavia
• Black Arts Council
• Carmel Art Association
• Carmel Arts and Crafts Club
• Catholic Art Association
• Chicano/Latino Film Forum
• Criterion (literary society)
• Double X (feminist art collective)
• Handicraft Guild
• Kilohana Art League
• League of American Writers
• Lee Art Theatre
• Los Cinco Pintores
• Maxine Elliott's Theatre
• National Music League
• New York Feminist Art Institute
• Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
• Photo League
• Rotterdamse Kunstkring
• Royal School of Art in Berlin
• San Francisco Art Association
• Sculptors' Society of Australia
• Seattle Camera Club
• Sibiu Literary Circle
• Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers
• Society of Western Artists (1896–1914)
• Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler
• Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America
• Taos Society of Artists
• The Four Arts
• The Painters' Club of Los Angeles
• The Pastellists
• Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

Arts organizations established in 1935

• Federal Theatre Project
• Federal Writers' Project
• Guildford School of Acting
• Harlem Artists Guild
• League of American Writers
• Making Music (organisation)
• Oregon Shakespeare Festival
• Tama Art University
• The White Stag group
• Tyler School of Art and Architecture

Communist Party USA mass organizations

• African Blood Brotherhood
• All-America Anti-Imperialist League
• American Artists' Congress
• American Labor Party
• American League Against War and Fascism
• American Negro Labor Congress
• American Peace Crusade
• American Peace Mobilization
• American Student Union
• Civil Rights Congress
• Constitutional Liberties Information Center
• Friends of Soviet Russia
• Hollywood Anti-Nazi League
• International Labor Defense
• International Workers Order
• Jefferson School of Social Science
• John Reed Clubs
• Labor Research Association
• League of American Writers
• League of Struggle for Negro Rights
• National Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance
• National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners
• National Council of American–Soviet Friendship
• National Miners' Union
• National Negro Congress
• National Student League
• North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy
• Progressive Party (United States, 1948–1955)
• Trade Union Educational League
• Trade Union Unity League
• Unemployed Councils
• W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs of America
• Washington Commonwealth Federation
• Workers Alliance of America
• Workers Film and Photo League (USA)
• Young Communist League USA

The arts and politics

• Art of the Umbrella Movement
• Arts Party
• Chas Fagan
• Craftivism
• Donna Ruff
• Harold Pinter
• Heresies Collective
• League of American Writers
• Music and politics
• Political cinema
• Political films
• Political satire
• Serious game
• Situationist International
• Social justice art
• Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics
• The arts and politics
• ToryBoy The Movie

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_American_Writers

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