Author: John Bulaitis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786733684
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Maurice Thorez (1900-1964) was a major figure in the history of twentieth-century France and European Communism for over three decades. Under his leadership, the French Communist Party (PCF) became France's largest political party and one of the most important communist parties in the West. Born in a mining village, Thorez left school at the age of 12 and would go on to helm the PCF in a rapid rise that paralleled Stalin's consolidation of power in the Soviet Union. After World War II, he became a minister, and briefly deputy prime minister, before the Cold War excluded communists from political power. The PCF became known as 'the party of Maurice Thorez', as a leader cult around Thorez was created that mirrored the cult of personality' around Stalin. This book is based on a wealth of original source material, including Thorez's diaries and notebooks. John Bulaitis outlines how Thorez's political life intersected with and was shaped by key historical events. At its heart, the book explores the paradox of the mass communist movement in France: its ability to fuse attachment to the French nation with fervent loyalty to the Soviet Union and Stalinist practices.
Maurice Thorez
Author: John Bulaitis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786733684
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Maurice Thorez (1900-1964) was a major figure in the history of twentieth-century France and European Communism for over three decades. Under his leadership, the French Communist Party (PCF) became France's largest political party and one of the most important communist parties in the West. Born in a mining village, Thorez left school at the age of 12 and would go on to helm the PCF in a rapid rise that paralleled Stalin's consolidation of power in the Soviet Union. After World War II, he became a minister, and briefly deputy prime minister, before the Cold War excluded communists from political power. The PCF became known as 'the party of Maurice Thorez', as a leader cult around Thorez was created that mirrored the cult of personality' around Stalin. This book is based on a wealth of original source material, including Thorez's diaries and notebooks. John Bulaitis outlines how Thorez's political life intersected with and was shaped by key historical events. At its heart, the book explores the paradox of the mass communist movement in France: its ability to fuse attachment to the French nation with fervent loyalty to the Soviet Union and Stalinist practices.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786733684
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Maurice Thorez (1900-1964) was a major figure in the history of twentieth-century France and European Communism for over three decades. Under his leadership, the French Communist Party (PCF) became France's largest political party and one of the most important communist parties in the West. Born in a mining village, Thorez left school at the age of 12 and would go on to helm the PCF in a rapid rise that paralleled Stalin's consolidation of power in the Soviet Union. After World War II, he became a minister, and briefly deputy prime minister, before the Cold War excluded communists from political power. The PCF became known as 'the party of Maurice Thorez', as a leader cult around Thorez was created that mirrored the cult of personality' around Stalin. This book is based on a wealth of original source material, including Thorez's diaries and notebooks. John Bulaitis outlines how Thorez's political life intersected with and was shaped by key historical events. At its heart, the book explores the paradox of the mass communist movement in France: its ability to fuse attachment to the French nation with fervent loyalty to the Soviet Union and Stalinist practices.
France Today and Tomorrow
France Today and Tomorrow
Maurice Thorez
Author: Vivian Pauline Gardner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Maurice Thorez and the French Communist Party Before the Second World War
Maurice Thorez
Author: Stéphane Sirot
Publisher: Les Presses de Sciences Po
ISBN:
Category : Communists
Languages : fr
Pages : 312
Book Description
Enfant des corons, secrétaire général du PCF pendant près de trente-cinq ans, figure de proue du Front populaire, vice-président du Conseil de l'après-guerre, Maurice Thorez est une personnalité majeure de la vie politique française du début des années trente au milieu des années soixante. Son itinéraire, qui traverse le stalinisme, fait de lui un enjeu tant parmi ses contemporains que chez les historiens. Il incarne une organisation, le " parti de Maurice Thorez ", qui bâtit autour de lui l'icône à partir de laquelle s'organisent en positif ou en négatif les représentations du " fils du peuple ". Thorez est un personnage à l'identité constamment exploitée à des fins politiques, c'est pourquoi l'analyse de la construction de l'image thorézienne s'avère indispensable à la compréhension du communisme français. L'évocation de ses itinéraires dépasse sans cesse la simple reconstitution d'une existence dont les actes s'inscrivent pour partie dans un idéal mythique autour duquel se mettent en mouvement un homme et une organisation partisane.
Publisher: Les Presses de Sciences Po
ISBN:
Category : Communists
Languages : fr
Pages : 312
Book Description
Enfant des corons, secrétaire général du PCF pendant près de trente-cinq ans, figure de proue du Front populaire, vice-président du Conseil de l'après-guerre, Maurice Thorez est une personnalité majeure de la vie politique française du début des années trente au milieu des années soixante. Son itinéraire, qui traverse le stalinisme, fait de lui un enjeu tant parmi ses contemporains que chez les historiens. Il incarne une organisation, le " parti de Maurice Thorez ", qui bâtit autour de lui l'icône à partir de laquelle s'organisent en positif ou en négatif les représentations du " fils du peuple ". Thorez est un personnage à l'identité constamment exploitée à des fins politiques, c'est pourquoi l'analyse de la construction de l'image thorézienne s'avère indispensable à la compréhension du communisme français. L'évocation de ses itinéraires dépasse sans cesse la simple reconstitution d'une existence dont les actes s'inscrivent pour partie dans un idéal mythique autour duquel se mettent en mouvement un homme et une organisation partisane.
Œuvres de Maurice Thorez. Livre Deuxième
France To-day and the People's Front, by Maurice Thorez. Translated from the French Manuscript by Emile Burns
Letter to Maurice Thorez
Author: Aimé Césaire
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communist Party (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communist Party (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description