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The French Communist Party as an object of political science
The PCF has nurtured abundant academic research in contemporary history, sociology and political science. As Laird Boswell notes, the studies on BCP “followed the curve of its influence in French society”: their number increased in the 1960s, remained relatively stable in the 1970s and 1980s, before...
Introduction. Memories of Communism in Europe
Addressing the question of remembrance today, the conflict of interpretations of the past is intensively fuelling public and political debate in all European countries. It is also about the phenomena of recomposition of political identities that accompany the changes in post-communist Europe. In the...
“Paul Nizan, intellectual and polemist”
International audience
Uploaded by the MSH of Dijon des Cahiers du Communism (1944-1999)
The Communism Cahiers took over from January 1944 until 1999. They are the monthly theoretical review of the central committee of the Communist Party of France and give executives, party activists, but also programmatic tools for reflection. This publication of 574 issues (84 362 files) was carried...
The Communist footprint in French society (1920-2010)
Roger Martelli has just published a book on the Communist footprint in French society, from the creation of the BCP to the present day. In the following interview, Marco di Maggio, author of a recent thesis on the history of French Communism, discusses with the author various issues developed in thi...
Cross stories of French and Italian Communism
Cross-histories of Italian and French Communism
“Something, immediately!”
The defence of the 1937 exhibition was one of the battles led by the French Communist Party from July 1936 to January 1938. Paul Vaillant-Couturier, Parisien rooted in the suburbs of Paris and interlocutor of intellectuals since 1932, has played a key role in the process, thanks to the combination o...
Being communist in Algeria in the 1920s and 1930s
When I started, two years ago, research into the Algerian Communist Party, it became clear to me that historiography had, so far, essentially developed a political history of the Communist movement in Algeria and that it could then be interesting to apply to develop a more social history. At that ti...
Cross-eyes, interested views
The CPF has produced an interesting speech on the second Spanish Republic with biased historical references. We should not forget, however, that the communist press was the main source of information for a large part of the French population, who was indoctrinated using simple and manichean language...
Understand, judge
In this article, Mr Beylin is interested in the right of the victims of Stalinism to speak in former communist countries. It focuses above all on ideologies which use Stalinism as a vehicle of their own messages, ideologies which transform ‘historical’ Stalinism, a set of real phenomena in concrete...
Prison for the past, remembrance resistance. Confederation of former political detainees The prison for the past, resistance for memory. The Confederation of Former Political Prisoners: CEFRES book No 26, Memory of Communism in Central Europe
In this article, F. Mayer looks at the claims of the Confederation of Former Political Prisoners of Czechoslovakia, prisoners of the 1950s and first victims of communist repression. At the symbolic level of collective memory, the association faces difficulties in forcing remembrance of the particula...
100 years ago a truly popular party was born 100 years ago a truly popular party: Development and decline of French Communism
As soon as it lives in December 1920, the French Communist Party claimed a unique place in the hexagonal political landscape: that of popular formation alone, led by people of the people to serve the people’s interests. At a time when the gap between leadership and laborious classes seems deeper tha...
The French Communist Party and Sport
Physical and sporting activities are often seen as an apolitical issue that transcends partisan divisions. There is, however, a long history of reflection in some formations, such as the French Communist Party, which is still not well known, including its activists. This article proposes to revisit...
Washington's attitude towards eurocommunism in France and Italy, 1974-1981
Eurocommunism refers to a trend among West European communist parties that aimed at promoting a communism compatible with Western-style democracy. It entailed embracing democratic "bourgeois" values, criticizing the Soviet model and fostering political coalitions with long-despised parties. French c...
French internment camps (1938-1946)
From the beginnings in February 1939, to the closing of the last camp, in May 1946, I estimate that there were 600,000 internees in around 200 centres, not for offences or crimes which they would have made but for the potential danger that they would represent for the State and/or the society. Inter...
Marie-Thérèse and Fernand Maurette-Dude: A family biography between rue d’Ulm and the edges of the Leman
This search comes from a well-known geograph, Fernand Maurette, who has become an international official at the ILO. She continued with the discovery of his wife Marie-Thérèse, Director of the Geneva International School from 1929 to 1949, which is the red thread of our work. It opens in four differ...
Mai-68 French and South Korea: blocked contestation and belated appropriation
'titrebreSummary’/titrebThe international contestation phenomenon does not reach South Korea, where democracy remains formal. The year 1968 was marked by the military tension resulting from the antagonism between the opposing governments of the two Korea. In South Korea, the effort for democracy is...
The young Communists in the Paris region and the war in the Liberation
While we know the Parisian Communists in the Liberation, we know less about the members and organisations of the immediate periphery of the French Communist Party. At a time when war and its imperatives determine the country’s military and political future, the decisions taken or to be taken in this...
Working struggles and the emergence of communism in Argenteuil (1900s — 1950s)
As a key element of marxist and revolutionary thinking, the concept of ‘fighting classes’, about the confrontation of two antagonistic social classes, takes on particular value for the study of labour struggles. Indeed, the primary framework of the class clash becomes the place of production, the ce...
SNECMA Works Council under the Fourth Republic or Communist Hegemony in the test
The word “Communism” overlaps an impressive number of meanings for the historian of the labour movement. In its common sense, it develops the theme of an ideal society based on the community of property. This definition cannot be sufficient to address the issue of a social and economic policy in ent...
Communism (s), war and military factor
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The socialist and communist brochures in France between 1840 and 1844
The brochure was a privileged way for French Communists and Socialists of the th century to publicise their doctrines and build organised political movements. Save in exceptional circumstances, these cheap writing was aimed at a popular audience who was invited to take part in the controversial spac...
Dimitri Manessis and Guillaume Roubaud-Quashie (dir.), red prints. New Perspectives for the History of French Communism
Rennes, University Presses of Rennes, ‘History’, 2018, 240 p. ISBN: 978-2-7535-7548-6 the book Red Empreues is the translation of the work of the doctoral days “Perspectives for the history of French Communism” organised on 14 and 15 October 2016 at the Departmental Archives of Seine-Saint-Denis in...
The dispute shall: the issue of responsibility for war and reorientation at Yoshimoto Takaaki between 1955 and 1958
The career as a critical thinker of the poet Yoshimoto Takaaki began to flourish in the 1950s, in particular through a text noticed on the reorientation in which it established equivalence between reorientation and non-reorientation. We show that his reflection on reorientation follows a controversi...