John Earl Haynes (born 1944) is an American historian who worked as a specialist in 20th-century political history in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. He is known for his books on the subject of the American Communist and anti-Communist 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 in 1966, and his master's degree and doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1968 and 1978, respectively. Career During the late 1970s, Haynes served as a legislative assistant to Wendell Anderson, a Democratic Governor of Minnesota named to replace Walter Mondale in the US Senate when the latter was elected Vice President of the United States. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union 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 microfilming 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, 1996. OCLC 30779937. Red Scare or Red Menace? American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War