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The Politics of History: French Communists Review Their Past

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Bernard H. Moss
Bernard H. Moss
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Auckland University, New Zealand
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 26 , Fall 1984 , pp. 65 - 74
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1984

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1. Robrieux, Philippe, Histoire intérieure du Parti communiste (3 vols., 1980–82).Google Scholar

2. Her clearest statement is “Les Communistes français et le pouvoir,” in Le Socialisme français el le pouvoir with Perrot, Michelle (1966).Google Scholar See also her commentaries for Le Figaro in Le Communisme au jour le jour 1979. Kriegel co-edits a semi-annual journal entitled Communisme: revue des éludes pluridisciplinnaires.

3. See Lavau, Georges, “Le Parti communiste dans le systeme politique francais,” in Le Communisme en France (1969).Google Scholar

4. See L'Histoire du Parti communiste français, 3 vols., by Unir, a dissident group originally set up by the police; and Claudin, Fernando, The Communist Movement from Comintern to Cominform (1975).Google Scholar

5. Histoire du Parti communiste français (Manuel)

6. The chief work under review is Bourderon, Roger et al. , Le PCF: étapes et problemes, 1920–1972 (1981)Google Scholar, consisting of lectures given at the Institute in 1979. See also Dion, M. et al. , La Classe ouvrière française et la politique (1981)Google Scholar; Tartakowsky, Danielle, Une Histoire du PCF (1982)Google Scholar: and the Cahiers d'histoire de l'Institut de Recherches Marxistes, a journal published quarterly.

7. Burles, Jean, Martelli, Roger, and Wolikow, Serge, Les Communistes el leur stratégic: réflexions sur une histoire (1981).Google Scholar

8. Aux Origines du communisme français, 1914–1920 2 vols., 1964.

9. This type of rebellion was endemic to the pre-war movement. See my The Origins of the French Labor Movement: The Socialism of Skilled Workers, 1830–1914 1976.

10. In addition to PCF works cited, see the introduction to Le Congrès de Tours (texte intégral), ed. Jean Charles el al. 1980.

11. La Scission syndicate de 1921 1980.

12. Cronin, James, “Labor Insurgency and Class Formation: Comparative Perspectives on the Crises of 1917–20 in Europe,” Social Science History, 4 (1980), 125–52.Google Scholar

13. The two currents have never been studied as such but see Girault, Jacques, Sur l'Imptantation du Parti communiste français dans l'entre-deux-guerres (1977)Google Scholar; Hamilton, Richard, Affluence and the French Worker in the Fourth Republic (1967)Google Scholar; and Michelat, Guy and Simon, Michel, Classe, réligion el comportement politique (1977).Google Scholar

14. The best narrative is Wohl, Robert, French Communism in the Making, 1914–1924 (1966).Google Scholar

15. Les Premiers Communistes français 1980.

16. Cf. Brower, Daniel, The New Jacobins: The French Communist Party and the Popular Front (1969).Google Scholar

17. Twilight of Comintern, 1930–1935 1982. See also Haslam, Jonathan, “The Comintern and the Origin of the Popular Front, 1934–35,” Historical Journal, 22 (1979), 673–91CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Santore, John, “The Comintern's United Front Initiative of May 1934: French or Soviet Inspiration?” Canadian Journal of History, 16, (1981), 405–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

18. Cf. Brower and Claudin.

19. Badie, Bertrand, Stratégie de la grève (1976).Google Scholar

20. Peschanski, Denis, “La Demande de parution legale de l'Humanite,” Le Mouvement social, hereafter MS, 113 (1980), 67–90.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

21. See Courtois, Stéphane, Le PCF dans la Guerre (1980)Google Scholar; Simmonds, J.C., “The French Communist Party and the Beginnings of Resistance,” European Studies Review, II (1981), 517–42CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and articles by Delattre, C. and Gallissot, R. in MS, 74 (1971)Google Scholar, and by Avakoumovitch, Ivan in MS 113 (1980).Google Scholar

22. Cf. Courtois and Robrieux.

23. Cf. Rieber, Alfred J., Stalin and the French Communist Party, 1941–1947 (1962).Google Scholar

24. Cf. Claudin and Unir.

25. French Communism in the Era of Stalin: The Quest for Unity and Integration, 1945–1962 1983.

26. Lacroix, Annie, “La CGT et revendications ouvrières face à l'Etat de la Libération aux débuts du Plan Marshall” (Université de Paris I, dissertation, 1981)Google Scholar; and her “Un Ministre communiste face à la question des salaires: l'action d'Ambroise Croizat de november 1945 à mai 1947,” MS, 123 1983, 3–44.

27. Cf., Ross, George, Workers and Communists in France: From Popular Front to Eurocommunism (1982)Google Scholar, whose rather partial treatment of the Cold War years contrasts with an excellent account of Eurocommunism.

28. See my “French Communists: A Vanguard Behind the Times?” in Australian Left Review, 82 1982, 38–46.