Institut Maurice Thorez
Institut Maurice Thorez ("Maurice Thorez Institute") was a French research institution linked to the French Communist Party. 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.
Institut Maurice Thorez
- Name
- Institut Maurice Thorez
- Founded
- 1966
- Headquarters
- France
- Dissolved
- 1979
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Institut Maurice Thorez ("Maurice Thorez Institute") was a French research institution linked to the French Communist Party. 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.
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At the Institut Maurice Thorez communist historians were able to research without strict party control. The Institute published Cahiers de l'Institut Maurice Thorez. Georges Cogniot was the founding director of the Institute, a position he held for various years. In 1980 the Institute was merged with the Marxist Studies and Research Centre, forming the Marxist Research Institute.
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• Name — Institut Maurice Thorez • Native Name — Maurice Thorez Institute • Established — mid-1960s • Type — Political research institute • Director — Georges Cogniot (founding), Jean Burles (as of 1978)
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1966
Institut Maurice Thorez established.
1966
Institut Maurice Thorez is recorded from 1966.
1966
Institut Maurice Thorez was established or created in 1966.
1979
Institut Maurice Thorez ceased.
1979
Institut Maurice Thorez was dissolved or ceased in 1979.
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The circumstances in which Institut Maurice Thorez stands. Thorez lies within boulevard Auguste-Blanqui. Established or created in 1966. Recorded as research institute. Dissolved or ceased in 1979. Situated in France.
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- 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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