Maurice Thorez : a biography /: a biography. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Bulaitis.
• Authors: Bulaitis, John
• Contents: Cover; Author Biography; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Series Foreword; Introduction Thorez in the Biographical Matrix; 1. Young Man in a Hurry; Childhood in a mining community; Teenage refugee; The birth of French communism; Private Maurice Thorez; Young militant; Member of the left faction; Regional leader; Trade unionist; 2. The Hesitant Revolutionary; Lyon Congress; Maurice Thorez: Trotskyist?; 'Notre bon collaborateur'; In the Russian capital; Campaign against war in Morocco; Maurice Thorez: Zinovievist?; Stalin against Thorez; Lille Congress Nord by-election3. Class against Class; Clash with Bukharin; Championing 'Class against Class'; Fugitive; Political prisoner; The 'turn' of 1930; Letter of resignation; The Barbé -Celor affair; Towards the Popular Front?; 'Allow Maurice a rest'; 4. Popular Front; February days; 'Listen carefully, Maurice'; People's Front; The Popular Front government; Spanish solidarity; A time of heroisation; 'Party of government'; 5. Exile in the Promised Land; 'Profound inner turmoil'; An 'unjust imperialist war'; Deserting the army; La Barbe; A second melody; Negotiations with the occupier National Front for national liberationA family in wartime; Ufa; Disbanding the Comintern; The long return; 6. In the Corridors of Power; Battle of production; 'Thorez to Power'; Minister of State; 'Absolute Monarchy'; The Times interview; Expelled from government; Szklarska-Poręba; 7. The Party of Maurice Thorez; Scapegoating Marty; Seeking reassurance from Stalin; 'Insurrectional' strikes, 1947-48; 'Peace hangs on a knife-edge'; Fiftieth birthday; Illness; 'Il revient il revient il vient il va venir' (Louis Aragon); A new routine; The Lecoeur affair; Back to the thirties 8. The Trauma of 1956At the Twentieth Congress; Reinterpreting the Secret Speech; Seeking advice from Togliatti; The fight against 'byrth-contrôle'; The May Central Committee; 'The report attributed to Khrushchev'; Polish October and Hungarian November; 'A senile incapacity to rise to the level of the event'; International communist diplomat; 9. Algeria and de Gaulle; Thorez and inter-war Algeria; 'The part and the whole'; De Gaulle: 'a personal dictatorship that opens the way to fascism'; 'I remain, but against my will'; The Casanova-Servin affair; Thorez and Khrushchev 10. Final Years and Legacy'Common programme, not communist programme'; 'Stalinism weighs heavily on us'; Modernising the party; In defence of French art; President Maurice Thorez; Legacy; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; Plates
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 335.43092 B; Communists -- France -- Biography; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786723680; 1786723689
• Related ISBNs: 9781845117252; 1845117255
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 09, 2018).
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