Der Kommunismus in Frankreich: Ambivalenter Akteur im Prozess der Demokratisierung des politischen Lebens

Abstract

Julian Mischi: Der Kommunismus in Frankreich: Ambivalenter Akteur im Prozess der Demokratisierung des politischen Lebens, in: Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung 2025. Berlin: Metropol Verlag, pp. 35–51.

The PCF, the main communist party in Western Europe, had a significant influence in France, particularly between 1944 and 1956. During this period it was a vehicle for the participation of the working class, women and immigrant workers in French political life. It was an instrument for breaking down, at least in part, the barriers that excluded them politically. In this sense, the influence of the communist movement in France led to a democratisation of national political society. But the PCF also played a more conservative role in defending the institutional order. Its leaders limited the possibilities of radical contestation of the social order through workers' protests, the gender order through the struggles of communist women, and the national order through anti-colonial struggles.

Über den Autor

Dr. Julian Mischi, Forschungsdirektor für Soziologie am INRAE (lʼInstitut national de recherche pour lʼagriculture, lʼalimentation et lʼenvironnement), Mitglied des IRISSO (Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences sociales – lʼuniversite Paris Dauphine-PSL). Autor zahlreicher Bücher zur Geschichte der Kommunistischen Partei Frankreichs: Le Parti des communistes. Histoire du PCF de 1920 à nos jours, Marseille 2020; Le Communisme désarmé. Le PCF et les classes populaires depuis les années 1970, Marseille 2014; Servir la classe ouvrière. Sociabilités militantes au PCF, Rennes 2010. Außerdem in englischer Sprache: ”Working-class politics and cultural capital: considerations from transformations of the French left”, in: The Sociological Review 67 (2019), H. 5, S. 1034–1049; “The French Communist Party and the working classes (1920s–1970s): A perspective from local activism”, in: French Politics 10 (2012), H. 2, S. 160–180.