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John Earl Haynes (born 1944) is an American historian who worked as a specialist in 20th-century
political history Political history is the narrative and survey of political events, ideas, movements, organs of government, voters, parties and leaders. It is closely related to other fields of history, including diplomatic history, constitutional history, social ...
in the Manuscript Division of the
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. He is known for his books on the subject of the American
Communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, ...
and
anti-Communist Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, when the United States and the ...
movements, and on Soviet espionage in America (many written jointly with Harvey Klehr).


Early years

He was born on 22 November 1944 in Plant City, Florida. Haynes received his undergraduate degree from
Florida State University Florida State University (FSU) is a public university, public research university in Tallahassee, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher e ...
in 1966, and his master's degree and doctorate from the
University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...
in 1968 and 1978, respectively.


Career

During the late 1970s, Haynes served as a legislative assistant to Wendell Anderson, a Democratic
Governor of Minnesota The governor of Minnesota is the head of government of the U.S. state of Minnesota, leading the state's executive branch. Forty people have been governor of Minnesota, though historically there were also three governors of Minnesota Territory. ...
named to replace Walter Mondale in the
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when the latter was elected
Vice President of the United States The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice p ...
.John Haynes, "DFL Policies Offer Cure for Tax Rebellion Fever," ''New America'' ew York vol. 15, no. 9 (October 1978), pg. 7. Following the
dissolution of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
during the first years of the 1990s, sensitive archives in Russia began to tentatively be opened to scholars. In 1993, in his capacity with the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, Haynes became the first American scholar to examine the records of the Communist Party USA, housed in the former archive of the Communist International in Moscow. Haynes was later instrumental in helping to forge a December 1998 agreement between the institutional forerunner of today's Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI), keeper of the Comintern documents, and the Library of Congress which led to the
microfilm Microforms are scaled-down reproductions of documents, typically either films or paper, made for the purposes of transmission, storage, reading, and printing. Microform images are commonly reduced to about 4% or of the original document size. ...
ing of the CPUSA collection and its sale to academic institutions.


References


Bibliography

* ''Pseudonyms of Authors: Including Anonyms and Initialisms.'' Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1969. OCLC 642930477. * "The 'Rank and File Movement" in Private Social Work," ''Labor History,'' vol. 16, no. 1 (Winter 1975). * ''Liberals, Communists, and the Popular Front in Minnesota : The Struggle to Control the Political Direction of the Labor Movement and Organized Liberalism, 1936-1950.'' PhD dissertation. University of Minnesota, 1978. * ''Dubious Alliance: The Making of Minnesota's DFL Party.'' Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. OCLC 10072296. * ''Communism and Anti-Communism in the United States: An Annotated Guide to Historical Writings.'' New York: Garland, 1987. OCLC 14413516. * ''The American Communist Movement: Storming Heaven Itself.'' With Harvey Klehr. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992. OCLC 25201075. * ''The Secret World of American Communism.'' With Harvey Klehr and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov. New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous. , Yale Univers ...
, 1996. OCLC 30779937. * ''Red Scare or Red Menace? American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era.'' Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996. OCLC 33208418. * ''The Soviet World of American Communism.'' With Harvey Klehr and Kyrill Anderson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. OCLC 37187391. * ''Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era: Essays on the History of the 1920s.'' (Editor.) Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1988. OCLC 38426204. * ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America.'' With Harvey Klehr. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. OCLC 44694569.
''Files of the Communist Party of the USA in the Comintern Archives.''
(Editor.) IDC Publishers, 2000. —Microfilm collection. * "The Cold War Debate Continues: A Traditionalist View of Historical Writing on Domestic Communism and Anti-Communism," ''Journal of Cold War Studies,'' vol. 2, no. 1 (Winter 2000), pp. 76–115. OCLC 90637039. * ''In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage.'' With Harvey Klehr. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003. OCLC 62271849. * ''Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics.'' With Harvey Klehr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. OCLC 63171119. * ''Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America.'' With Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. OCLC 262432345. * ''Secret Cables of the Comintern, 1933-1943.'' With Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov and Harvey Klehr. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. OCLC 861955213.


Sources

* Jamie Glaznov

History News Network, George Mason University, December 1, 2003. * Victoria Phillips, "Reflections of a Neo-Liberal: An Interview with John Haynes," ''American Communist History,'' vol. 13, no. 2-3 (Aug.-Dec. 2014), pp. 85–151.


External links


John Earl Haynes's website
JohnEarlHaynes.org * ''Library of Congress''

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Haynes, John Earl Historians of the United States Cold War historians American historians of espionage Florida State University alumni University of Minnesota alumni Living people Historians of communism 1944 births