''Institut Maurice Thorez'' ('
Maurice Thorez Institute') was a French research institution linked to the
French Communist Party
The French Communist Party (french: Parti communiste français, ''PCF'' ; ) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its MEPs sit in the European Unit ...
. 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
Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
to theoretical and political problems. At the Institut Maurice Thorez communist historians were able to research without strict party control. The Institute published ''
Cahiers de l'Institut Maurice Thorez''.
Georges Cogniot
Georges Cogniot (15 December 1901 in Montigny-lès-Cherlieu, Haute-Saône – 12 March 1978) was a French writer, philosopher and politician of the French Communist Party
The French Communist Party (french: Parti communiste français, ''PCF' ...
was the founding director of the Institute, a position he held for various years. As of 1978, Jean Burles served as director of the Institute.
In 1980 the Institute was merged with the Marxist Studies and Research Centre, forming the Marxist Research Institute.
[Adereth, M. ]
The French Communist Party: A Critical History (1920-1984), from Comintern to "the Colours of France"
'. Manchester reater Manchester Manchester University Press, 1984. p. xv
References
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History of the French Communist Party
Political and economic think tanks based in France