Examines the emergence and subsequent demise of intellectual identification with the French Communist Party, arguing that, after 1978, political conflicts between the Communist leadership and party intellectuals led to an erosion of support.
"Historians of the French extreme right frequently denote the existence of a strong xenophobic and nationalist tradition dating from the 1880s, a perpetual anti-republicanism which pervaded twentieth-century political discourse. Much attention is habitually paid to the interwar …
"Historians of the French extreme right frequently denote the existence of a strong xenophobic and nationalist tradition dating from the 1880s, a perpetual anti-republicanism which pervaded twentieth-century political discourse. Much attention is habitually paid to the interwar …
The first general study of communism in Mediterranean Europe, shedding fresh light on the origins of Europe's present East-West divide.
The Vietnamese Communist Party has been preoccupied with renewal and reorganization for over a decade. Efforts to eliminate inefficient, ineffective and corrupt cadre; recruit younger, skilled and better educated members; improve basic party chapter-level leadership and organiza…