Institut Maurice Thorez

Institut Maurice Thorez ('Maurice Thorez Institute') was a French research institution linked to the French Communist Party.^[1] The Institute was set up in the mid-1960s (alongside the Marxist Studies and Research Centre), as part of a process of ideological reorientation of the Communist Party. These two new institutes encouraged more creative forms of applications of Marxism to theoretical and political problems.^[2] At the Institut Maurice Thorez communist historians were able to research without strict party control.^[3] The Institute published Cahiers de l'Institut Maurice Thorez.^[4]

Georges Cogniot was the founding director of the Institute, a position he held for various years.^[5]^[6] As of 1978, Jean Burles served as director of the Institute.^[7]

In 1980 the Institute was merged with the Marxist Studies and Research Centre, forming the Marxist Research Institute.^[8]

References

^ Bell, David Scott. Contemporary French Political Parties. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. p.
^ Adereth, M. The French Communist Party: A Critical History (1920-1984), from Comintern to "the Colours of France". Manchester [Greater Manchester]: Manchester University Press, 1984. p. 180
^ Guiat, Cyrille. The French and Italian Communist Parties: Comrades and Culture. London: Frank Cass, 2003. p. 4
^ Adereth, M. The French Communist Party: A Critical History (1920-1984), from Comintern to "the Colours of France". Manchester [Greater Manchester]: Manchester University Press, 1984. p. 293
^ Lazić, Branko M., and Milorad M. Drachkovitch. Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern. Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press, 1986. p. 78
^ Mehnert, Klaus. Moscow and the New Left. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. p. 293
^ Bucharin, N. I. Selected Writings on the State and the Transition to Socialism. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1982. p. xxi
^ Adereth, M. The French Communist Party: A Critical History (1920-1984), from Comintern to "the Colours of France". Manchester [Greater Manchester]: Manchester University Press, 1984. p. xv