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A formidable body of research exists on the Parti communiste français (PCF), comprising distinguished narratives in English and French charting its highs and lows during most of the twentieth century.1 Other studies have traced the way its fortunes have been crucially tied to those of its ideological mentor,2 together with enduringly valuable studies exploring the culture that enabled it to survive for so long as a counter-community and assume the role of a tribune party.3
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In French, for example, J. Fauvet, Histoire du parti communiste français (Paris: Fayard, 1964–65) and
P. Robrieux, Histoire intérieure du parti communiste (Paris: Fayard, 1980–84). In English,
M. Adereth, The French Communist Party: A Critical History, 1920–1984 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984).
See F. Fejtö, The French Communist Party and the Crisis of International Communism (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1967).
Most notably A. Kriegel, The French Communists. Profile of a People (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972).
D. S. Bell and B. Criddle, The French Communist Party in the Fifth Republic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).
From the decade when the leadership began to lose control of dissent within the party, see H. Fizsbin, Les bouches s’ouvrent (Paris: Grasset, 1980),
P. Juquin, Fraternellement libre (Paris: Grasset, 1988).
A. Spire (ed.), La Culture des camarades (Paris: Autrement, 1992).
Robert Hue has been painstaking in his attempts to do this in, for example, Communisme: La mutation and Communisme: le nouveau projet (Paris: Stock, 1995 and 1999).
M. Lazar, Le Communisme: Une passion française (Paris: Perrin, 2002).
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Raymond, G.G. (2005). Introduction. In: The French Communist Party during the Fifth Republic. French Politics, Society and Culture Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230512870_1
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