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Cold War Bibliography
U.S. Government Documents
|Congressional Publications, Committee Level|
|Congressional Publications, Floor Level|
|Executive Agency Documents| |Translated
Documents| |Selected Congressional Reports
and Documents, 1947-58| |Selected Congressional
Hearings, 1940s-1960s|
COMMITTEE LEVEL CONGRESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
Hearings--
The chief and usually initial mechanism by which committees gather information. Expert witnesses and government officials testify either on behalf of, or in opposition to, proposed legislation or policy issues. The result is a wealth of expert and often diverse testimony. Committees hold hearings, (1), to weigh the merits of proposed legislation (legislative); (2), to evaluate the programs and appraise the performance of executive agencies (oversight). Hearings to authorize and fund agency programs are examples. Oversight hearings provide one of the few public records of exchange between congressional overseers and agency officials; (3), to investigate charges of criminal wrongdoing (investigative); hearings conducted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities serve as excellent examples;(4), hearings preparatory to proposing legislation, that is, committees explore compelling issues of public policy (exploratory). For example, in the 1980s committees held a number of hearings on issues surrounding global warming. Congressional hearings have a call number stem of "Y4"; they are located in Merrill Library, 4th floor.
Access--Retrospective--1833-1969. US Congressional Committee Hearings Index 1833-1969, (Merrill 4th floor, Docs. Ref. ).
This index permits searching not only by subject and title, but also by call number, as well as by the names of witnesses.
Access--1970-forward--Congressional
Universe--Library Home Page, Indexes/Abstracts
Provides bibliographic information for as well as abstracts
to congressional hearings from 1970 forward. Also provides partial
text of hearings published after 1987. Please note that this database
fails to provide the full-text of congressional hearings. Hearings
contain four elements: (1), prepared submitted statement of witness;
(2), spoken testimony; (3), cross-examination; (4), inserted materials.
Of these, the last two are most important, and they are unavailable.
Inserted materials and cross-examination appear only in the printed
official version, located in Merrill Library, 4th floor documents.
House and Senate Reports:
Like hearings, House and Senate Reports may be legislative, investigative, or exploratory. As for those tied to proposed legislation, committee reports describe conditions giving rise to a bill, describe legislative activity on similar bills, summarize the testimony of hearings held relative to the bill, and contain the opinions of agencies that bear administrative responsibility. The House Committee on Un-American Activities, so central to the Cold War at its most hysterical, issued a number of investigate committee reports, some of the more substantive of which are listed below. The government publishes House and Senate Reports cumulatively at the end of each congressional session, in what is known as the Serial Set. The Serial Set is located in Merrill Docs, the call number stem is "X." Prior to 1900, most Serial Set volumes are located in Merrill, Special Collections.
Access--1789-1969--CIS Index to the US Congressional Serial Set (Merrill Library, 4th Floor, Documents Reference).
Acess--1970--Congressional Universe The full text of most committee reports published after 1987 is available from Congressional Compass.
Floor Level Congressional Publications:
The Congressional Record (CR). Contains a record of proceedings taking place on the House and Senate floors. Besides serving as the forum where bills are introduced, amended, debated, and either passed or rejected, the floors of Congress, on which legislators are immune from libel suits, have been the stage for great political theater. Here, researchers may find a number of colorful quotes from controversial legislators such as Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Congressional Record is a multi-volume set located in the government documents collection
Indexes: History of Bills and Resolutions. Serves as an index to the proceedings of each session of Congress. On the shelf it appears as the last volume for each congressional session. Besides providing the legislative history of all bills for a particular session, the History of Bills and Resolutions includes an index of legislators' remarks. Indexes: Congressional Universe. Provides the full-text of the Congressional Record from 1985. It includes many searchable fields that facilitate
Selected Executive Agency Documents:
US Department of State. Bulletin: The Official Record of United States Foreign Policy (Merrill Library, 2nd Floor, Serials, JX232.D46).
US Department of State. A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1942-49, (Wash, DC: Government Printing Office, 1950. (Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents, S1.69:415).
US General Services Administration, Public Papers of the Presidents. (Wash, DC: Government Printing Office, 1961-66). (Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents, GS4.113 and AE2.114)
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TRANSLATED DOCUMENTS OF THE JOINT PUBLICATIONS RESEARCH SERVICE (JPRS) AND THE FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE (FBIS)
WHAT ARE JPRS REPORTS?
JPRS was the largest single producer of English language translations. JPRS was established in 1957 to provide agencies of the federal government with translations of foreign documents in all fields of technology, science, and the social sciences. Translations were done by private researchers and linguists under commercial contract with JPRS, and were commissioned and financed by various government agencies. JPRS TRANSLATES MATERIALS FROM WHICH GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS? Reports were regularly translated from China; Asia (Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Southeast Asia); Eastern Europe; Western Europe; Latin America; Near East; Africa; and the USSR.
COVERAGE: Late 1950s-1970
Access: Monthly Catalog
Format: Microcard (Merrill Library, 2nd Floor)
Arrangement: Monthly Catalog entry number.
COVERAGE: 1970-1978
ACCESS: Transdex and Monthly Catalog
Format: Microcard (Merrill Library, 2nd Floor)
Arrangement: Monthly Catalog entry number
COVERAGE 1977-1996
Access: Transdex
Format: depository microfiche (Merrill Library, 4th Floor
Documents)
Arrangement: By JPRS report number which coincided with
SuDoc number through 1984; after 1984, by JPRS series designation.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
FBIS is the sister agency of JPRS. While the JPRS translated into English printed foreign publications, FBIS translated foreign radio and televison broadcasts, covering most regions of the world.
COVERAGE: 1963-1972
Acess: Merrill Library, 2nd Floor Serials, D 839.U64
Format: Paper
COVERAGE: 1978-1990s
Acess: Readex Index to FBIS Daily Reports
Format: CD-ROM (Merrill Library, 1st Floor)
Format: the documents themselves are on microfiche, 4th
Floor Documents
Arrangement: Superintendent of Documents Call Number, PREX7.10
Selected Congressional Reports and Documents: 1947-1958
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Menace of Communism: Statement of J. Edgar Hoover. (1947). | Senate Document No. 26 (80th Cong., 1st sess) Serial No. 11132 |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Civil Rights Congress As A Communist Front Organization. (1947). | House Report No. 1115 (80th Cong., 1st sess) Serial No. 1123, Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents |
| House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The Strategy and Tactics of World Communism, Supplement I, One Hundred Years of Communism, 1848-1948 AND Supplement II, Official Protests of the United States Government Against Communist Policies or Actions, and Related Correspondence. (1948). | House Document No. 619 (80th Cong., 2nd sess), Serial No. 11227, Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents |
| House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The Strategy and Tactics of World Communism, Supplement III: The Coup D'etat in Prague. (1949). | House Document No. 154 (81st Cong., 1st sess), Serial No. 11316, Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents |
| House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The Strategy and Tactics of World Communism, Supplement IV: Five Hundred Leading Communists. (1948). | House Document No. 707 (80th Cong., 2nd sess) Serial No. 11228), 4th Floor Documents |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Report on the Communist Party of the United States As An Advocate of Overthrow of Government By Force and Violence. (1948). | House Report No. 1920 (80th Cong., 2nd sess) Serial No. 11211, Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents |
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House Select Committee on Communist Agression. Special
Reports, 16 parts:
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House Report No. 2684 (83rd Cong., 2nd sess), Serial No. 1749, Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. 100 Things You Should Know About Communism in the United States. (1951). | House Document No. 136 (82nd Cong., 1st sess) Serial No. 11521, Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents |
| Senate Committee on Government Operations. Congressional Investigations of Communism and Subversive Activities: Summary-Index, 1918 to 1956. (1956). | Senate Document No. 148 (84th Congress, 2nd sess), Serial No. 11914, Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents |
| Senate Judiciary Committee. The Communist Party of the United States of America, What It Is, How It Works: A Handbook For Americans. (1956). | Senate Document No. 117 (84th Cong., 2nd sess) Serial No. 11909), Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. The Communist Conspiracy, Strategy and Tactics of World Communism, Part I: Communism Outside the United States; Foreward; General Introduction; Section A: Marxist Classics. (1956). | House Report No. 2240 (84th Cong., 2nd sess) Serial No. 11907, Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. The Communist Conspiracy, Strategy and Tactics of World Communism, Part I: Communism Outside the United States. Section B: The U.S.S.R. (1956). | House Report No. 2241 (84th Cong., 2nd sess) Serial No. 11907, Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents |
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House Committee on Un-American Activities. The Communist Conspiracy, Stategy and Tactics of World Communism, Part 1: Communism Outside the United States. Section C: The World Congresses of the Communist International. (1956). |
House Report No. 2242 (84th Cong., 2nd sess), Serial No. 11907, Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. The Communist Conspiracy, Strategy and Tactics of World Communism, Part I: Communism Outside the United States. Section D: Communist Activities Around the World. (1956) | House Report No. 2243 (84th Cong., 2nd sess), Serial No. 11907, Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. The Communist Conspiracy, Strategy and Tactics of World Communism, Part I: Communism Outside the United States. Section E: The Comintern and the CPUSA. (1957). | House Report No. 2244 (84th Cong., 2nd sess), Serial No. 11907, Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents |
| Senate Judiciary Committee. Subcommitee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act. Statement By J. Edgar Hoover, An Analysis of the Sixteenth Annual Convention of the Communist Party of the United States. (1957). | Senate Documents No. 40 (85th Cong., 1st sess) Serial No.11992, Merrill Library, 4th Floor Documents |
Selected
Congressional Hearings and Committee Prints: 1940s-1960s
(Merrill Library has all of the following documents, 4th Floor,
Documents).
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hearings Regarding Communism in Labor Unions in the United States. (80th Cong., 1st sess.), February-July 1947. (1947). | Y4.UN1/2:C73/2 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hearings Regarding The Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry. (80th Cong., 1st sess.), October 1947. (1947). | Y4.UN1/2:C73/3 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hearings on Proposed Legislation to Curb or Control the Communist Party of the United States. (80th Cong., 2nd sess.), February 1948. (1948). | Y4.UN1/2:C73/4 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. 100 Things You Should Know About Communism and Religion, Labor, and Government. (1948). | Y4.UN1/2:C73/5 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hearings Regarding Communist Espionage in the United States Government, Parts 1 &2. ((80th Cong., 2nd sess), July-December 1948. (1948). | Y4.UN1/2:C73/6 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Report on the Congress of American Women. (1949). | Y4.UN1/2:C76 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hearings Regarding Communism in the United States Government, Parts 1 & 2. (81st Cong., 2nd sess), Mostly 1950. (1950). | Y4.UN1/2:C73/17 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Communist Infiltration of Hollywood Motion-Picture Industry, Parts 1-10. 1951-52. | Y4.UN1/2:C73/21/PT 1-10 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Communist Methods of Infiltration (Education), Parts2-9. (1953). | Y4.UN1/2:C73/34/PT.2-9 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Communist Methods of Infiltration (Government-Labor), Parts 1-4. (83rd Cong., 1st sess), (1953-54). | Y4.UN1/2:C73/39/PT. 1-4 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Communist Methods of Infiltration, (Education) Parts 2-9. (83rd Cong., 1st sess), (1953-54). | Y4.UN1/2:C73/PT.2-9 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Investigation of Communist Infiltration of Government, Parts 1-6. (84th Cong., 1st and 2nd sessions), (1955-56). | Y4.UN1/2:C73/62/PT.1-6 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hearings on Attempts at Subversion and Espionage by Diplomatic Personnel. (84th Cong., 2nd sess), May 1956 (1956). | Y4.UN1/2:D62 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thought Control in Soviet Art and Literature and the Liberation of Russia, (Part 8 in the series, Investigation of Communist Activities in the Los Angeles Area), (84th Cong., 2nd sess), April 1956 (1956). | Y4.UN1/2:C73/37/PT. 8 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Communist Political Subversion, Parts 1-2. (84th Cong., 2nd sess), November-December 1956. (1957) | Y4.UN1/2:C73/81/PT.1-2 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Facts on Communism, Volumes I & 2. Vol 1: "The Communist Ideology;" Vol 2: "The Soviet Union: From Lenin to Khrushchev." (86th Cong., 1st sess), (1959) | Y4.UN1/2:C73/108 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Communist Economic Warfare: Consultation With Dr. Robert Loring Allen. (86th Cong., 2nd sess), April 6, 1960, (1960). | Y4.UN1/2:C73/110 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Structure and Organization of the Communist Party of the United States. (87th Cong., 1st sess), November 1961 (1962). | Y4.UN1/2:C73/119 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. The Communist Party's Cold War Against Congressional Investigation of Subversion. (87th Cong., 2nd sess). (1962) | Y4.UN1/2:C67 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. World Communist Movement: Selective Chronology 1818-1957, (Prepared by the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress), Volumes 2 & 3. (1964). | Y4.UN1/2:C73/114 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Conduct of Espionage Within the United States By Agents of Foreign Communist Governments. (90th Cong., 1st sess), April-November 1967. (1967). | Y4.UN1/2:ES6 | |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities. Communist Commitment to Force and Violence. (90th Cong., 2nd sess), (1968). | Y4.UN1/2:F74 |
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