Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection

The Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection is a collection of 81 uncataloged pamphlets, which are a part of the larger, catalogued Van Sickle Collection. Most of these pamphlets were distributed for free or at a very low cost and were largely propaganda tracts. Many of the items in the collection are very rare, and it is believed that many titles are unique to the UCF collection. The poor quality of the paper used in the printing of the pamphlets, as well as the temporal nature of pamphlet materials, has contributed to their scarcity. These pamphlets range in date from 1900s to 1970s cover a variety of topics related to communism and socialism. Topics include world pacifism and the banning of the atomic bomb, anti-racism, anti-Semitism, world labor movements, class struggle, women's rights, Marxist economics, religion, civil rights, and the United Nations. The pamphlets also cover a wide geographic range of much of Europe, Cuba, Kenya, the Congo, India, Vietnam and Korea; however, they are concentrated on the United States, Soviet Union and Canada. Many of the authors of these pamphlets are the communist parties of these nations; however, pamphlets are also authored by such figures as Josef Stalin, Frederick Engels, Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin and Fidel Castro.