John Earl Haynes

John Earl Haynes (born 1944) is an American historian renowned for his authoritative work on the history of American communism and Soviet espionage in the United States. His meticulous research has provided significant insights into the operations and impact of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and Soviet intelligence activities during the 20th century.

Haynes earned his B.A. from Florida State University in 1966, and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota in 1978. His academic career has largely been associated with his role as a historian at the Library of Congress, where he served from 1978 to 2015, specializing in the history of American communism and Cold War espionage. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution and a senior research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Haynes' work, often in collaboration with Harvey Klehr, has extensively utilized previously classified documents from Soviet archives, shedding light on the espionage networks that infiltrated American institutions. His notable books include "Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America" (1999), co-authored with Klehr, which explores decrypted Soviet communications that revealed the extent of Soviet espionage. Another significant work is "The Secret World of American Communism" (1995), which provides a comprehensive account of the CPUSA's connections with the Soviet Union.

Bibliography

• Haynes, John Earl. Dubious Alliance: The Making of Minnesota's DFL Party. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. OCLC 9822049.
• Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr. The American Communist Movement: Storming Heaven Itself. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992. OCLC 25201075.
• Haynes, John Earl, Harvey Klehr, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov. The Secret World of American Communism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. OCLC 30779937.
• Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr. The Soviet World of American Communism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. OCLC 37187391.
• Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr. Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. OCLC 44694569.
• Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr. In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage. San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2003. OCLC 62271849.
• Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr. Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials That Shaped American Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Haynes, John Earl, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev. Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
• Haynes, John Earl, and Robert Gabrick. Communism, Espionage, and the Cold War: A Unit of Study for Grades 9-12. Los Angeles, CA: National Center for History in the Schools, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004.
• Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr. The Soviet World of American Communism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.
• Firsov, Fridrikh Igorevich, Harvey Klehr, and John Earl Haynes. Secret Cables of the Comintern, 1933-1943. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.
• Haynes, John Earl. Red Scare or Red Menace?: American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 1996. OCLC 34783898.
• Haynes, John Earl, Harvey Klehr, and Kyrill Anderson. The Soviet World of American Communism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. OCLC 37187391.
• Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr. On the Trail of the Trotskyists: Long-Lost Records from the Russian Archives. Hoover Institution Press, 2021.