Max Adereth. The French Communist Party: a critical history (1920-1984).

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

I – Origins and birth (1880-1820)

II – Aprrenticeship (1921-33)

III – Maturity: the Popular Front (1934-8)

IV – Trials: the acid test of war (1939-45)

V – Rise and fall: from ministers (1945-7) to cold war ‘pariahs’ (1947-58)

VI – Into battle: the PCF against the Gaullist Fifth Republic (1958-68)

VII – ‘In the colours of France’ (1969-78)

VIII – Coming of age: from Cominform to ‘Euro-Communism’ and beyond (1947-84)

IX – Coming of age: from Communist opposition to Communist ministers (1979-84)

In lieu of a conclusión

Appendices

1 – The PCF’s organisational structure

2 – The PCF’s social composition and inplantation

3 – PCF membership figures

4 – PCF electoral support since 1924

5 – PCF press and publishing activity

6 – Chronological Table

7 – Interview with three PCF leaders (April 1984)

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