Robert W. Cherny is a U.S. historian, Professor emeritus of History at San Francisco State University, and a co-founder of the Labor Archives and Research Center, also at San Francisco State University. His research files contain materials gathered by Cherny in the course of his research for biographies of the Russian-American painter Victor Arnautoff and the Australian-born U.S. labor leader and longtime head of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) Harry Bridges, as well his research on Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) activists in twentieth-century San Francisco. Materials include reproductions and translations of archival materials from the United States, Russia, and Australia, journal articles and book chapters, and over 100 oral history interviews with labor organizers, attorneys, and communist activists.

Robert W. Cherny (born 1943) is a U.S. historian, Professor emeritus of History at San Francisco State University, and a co-founder of the Labor Archives and Research Center, also at San Francisco State University.

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