Institut Maurice Thorez

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Institut Maurice Thorez ("Maurice Thorez Institute") was a French research institution linked to the French Communist Party. [1] The Institute was set up in the mid-1960s (alongside the Marxist Studies and Research Centre), as part of a process of ideological reorientation of the Communist Party. These two new institutes encouraged more creative forms of applications of Marxism to theoretical and political problems. [2] At the Institut Maurice Thorez communist historians were able to research without strict party control. [3] The Institute published Cahiers de l'Institut Maurice Thorez . [4]

Georges Cogniot was the founding director of the Institute, a position he held for various years. [5] [6] As of 1978, Jean Burles served as director of the Institute. [7]

In 1980 the Institute was merged with the Marxist Studies and Research Centre, forming the Marxist Research Institute. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Bell, David Scott. Contemporary French Political Parties . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. p.
  2. ↑ Adereth, M. The French Communist Party: A Critical History (1920-1984), from Comintern to "the Colours of France" . Manchester [Greater Manchester]: Manchester University Press, 1984. p. 180
  3. ↑ Guiat, Cyrille. The French and Italian Communist Parties: Comrades and Culture . London: Frank Cass, 2003. p. 4
  4. ↑ Adereth, M. The French Communist Party: A Critical History (1920-1984), from Comintern to "the Colours of France" . Manchester [Greater Manchester]: Manchester University Press, 1984. p. 293
  5. ↑ Lazić, Branko M., and Milorad M. Drachkovitch. Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern . Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press, 1986. p. 78
  6. ↑ Mehnert, Klaus. Moscow and the New Left . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. p. 293
  7. ↑ Bucharin, N. I. Selected Writings on the State and the Transition to Socialism . Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1982. p. xxi
  8. ↑ Adereth, M. The French Communist Party: A Critical History (1920-1984), from Comintern to "the Colours of France" . Manchester [Greater Manchester]: Manchester University Press, 1984. p. xv
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