Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1986 - Volume 12 - Numéro 1 - Pages 51-58The intellectual elite, the militant avant-garde and the Algerian people, Guy Pervillé. Contemporary Algerian history has seen in recent years a great wealth of research on minority cultural, social or political groups. The most recent research even uses the biographical method, long criticized as « elitist ». Is such rehabilitation of the role of the individual and of organizations compatible with the « populist » interpretation which explains the Algerian revolution by « the creative initiative of the popular masses » ? The masses were above all a stake, claimed by the two rival minority forces : a military vanguard and an intellectual elite. 8 pages Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.