The Rise of the French Communist Party, 1920-1947
Author: Edward Mortimer
Publisher: London : Boston : Faber and Faber
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 431
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Author: Edward Mortimer
Publisher: London : Boston : Faber and Faber
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 431
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maxwell Adereth
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 702
ISBN-13: 9780719010835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Scott Bell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780198219903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis up-to-date new analysis of the French Communist Party reveals it as an entirely unconventional political force: not a normal party vying for office, but a Leninist bureaucracy armed with an apocalyptic mission to deliver humanity from capitalism. Its interests have been defined as part of an outpost of a world revolutionary movement; and whilst its strategies may have varied, they have done so in order to serve Soviet foreign policy purposes. D. S. Bell and Byron Criddle trace the history of the Communist Party in France from its origins. They focus in particular on the period since 1958 and explore the Party's unique organizational structures and international loyalties. They examine structure and ideology, relations with the Socialist Party, electoral performance, and the 1980s decline in the Party's fortunes. This study will be essential reading for all students of contemporary French history and politics.
Author: Alma Benson
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 248
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 226
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Published: 1963
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gino G. Raymond
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-08-10
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0230512879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe demise of the French Communist Party (PCF) has been a recurrent feature of overviews of the Left in France for the past two decades, and yet the Communists survive. This study examines the factors that undermined the position of the PCF as the premier party of France, but also highlights the challenges that the party faces in a society disillusioned with politics, and the new strategies that it is developing in order to revive its fortunes.
Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780198278702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work examines the emergence and subsequent demise of intellectual identification with the French Communist Party, arguing that after 1978, political conflicts between the Communist leadership and party intellectuals led to an erosion of support.
Author: Aaron Clift
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-06-20
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0198886802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnticommunism in French Society and Politics, 1945-1953 evaluates the prevalence of anticommunism among the French population in 1945 to 1953, and examines its causes, character, and consequences through a series of case studies on different segments of French society. These include the scouting movement; family organisations; agricultural associations; middle-class groups; and trade unions and other working-class organisations. Aaron Clift contends that anticommunism was more widespread and deeply rooted than previously believed, and had a substantial impact on national politics and on these social groups and organisations. Furthermore, he argues that the study of anticommunism allows us a deeper understanding of the values they regarded as the most important to defend. Although anticommunism was a diverse phenomenon, this work identifies common discourses, including portrayals of communism as a threat to the nation; the colonial empire; the traditional family; private property; religion; the rural world; and Western civilisation. It also highlights common aims (such as the rehabilitation of wartime collaborators) and tactics (such as the invocation of apoliticism). While acknowledging the importance of the Cold War, it rejects the assumption that anticommunism was an American import or foreign to French society and demonstrates links between anticommunism and anti-Americanism. It concludes that anticommunism drew its strength from the connection or even conflation of communism with perceived negative social changes that were seen to threaten traditional French civilisation, interacting with the postwar international and domestic environment and the personal experiences of individual anticommunists.