Les générations communistes

Communist generations, Philippe Buton The concept of generation, understood as cohort of affiliations, with singularities marked by references to different founding events and social profiles, whose specificity is experienced as such, does help understand the development of the French Communist Party. " Generation of the war ", " party of metal workers ", " party of those executed " during the war, party of " Maurice Thorez ", then of the Union of the Left, successive strata illustrate the changes of the Party within the Bolchevik mold, which remained unchanged since the graft of the 1920s.Buton Philippe. Les générations communistes. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°22, avril-juin 1989. Les générations. pp. 81-92