French Communist Party

The French Communist Party (French: Parti communiste français or PCF) is France's largest communist party and a member of the European Left group.

The 1920s

Although at first the PCF rivalled the SFIO for leadership of the French socialist movement, within a few years its support declined, and for most of the 1920s it was a small and isolated party. In the late 1920s the policies of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, under which the PCF denounced the SFIO as "social fascists" and refused any co-operation, kept the left weak and divided. Like all Comintern parties, the PCF underwent a process of "Stalinisation" in which a pro-Stalin leadership under Maurice Thorez was installed in 1930 and all internal dissent banned. The rise of Adolf Hitler and the destruction of the German Communist Party led to a change of policy in the early 1930s.

Related Topics:
Soviet Union - Joseph Stalin - Social fascists - Maurice Thorez - 1930 - Adolf Hitler - German Communist Party

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