David Caute. Communism and the French Intellectuals, 1914-1960.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE

THE PARTY AND INTELLECTUALS

1 – La Main Tendue

2 – Principles of Utility

3 – Alienation and Discipline

PART TWO

INTELLECTUALS AND THE PARTY

1 – 1914-1927

2 – 1927-1934

3 – 1934-1939

4 – 1939-1940

5 – 1940-1945

6 – 1945-1956

7 – Four Themes:

Nationalism

Anti-Semitism?

Colonialism

The Defence of French Culture

8 – 1956-1960

PART THREE

THREE CASE HISTORIES

1 – André Gide

2 – André Malraux

3 – Jean-Paul Sartre  

PART FOUR

INTELLECTUALS AND THE INTELLECT

1 – Marxism and Communist Intellectuals

2 – History in the Making

3 – Communism and Science

4 – The Writers – Socialist Realism and Zhdanovism

5 – Politics and Painting

6 – Vanguard and Rearguard: Education and the Law

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY