Les « batailles du livre » du parti communiste français (1950-1952) - article ; n°1 ; vol.10, pg 37-50

Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1986 - Volume 10 - Numéro 1 - Pages 37-50
The French communist party's battles for the book (1950-1952), Marc Lazar.
From 1950 to 1952 the French Communist Party organized several book battles , occasions for communist or sympathetic writers to go to the people and reconcile the books and the workers. The work place was part of the fight for peace strategy, set up at the time by the Kominform on the rallying theme - reject of the American model - of the intellectuals. And while the record of this ideological war front was generally negative, the battles enable the historian to get a better understanding of the relations between communist intellectuals and party apparatus.
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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.