World Revolution to the sounds of Marseilles (1919 - 1923)

In this book, readers are proposed to the first for many years in Russian a comprehensive study of the evolution of French socialism at the beginning of the XX century. And the analysis of the causes of his crisis, which ended with the emergence of one of the largest communist parties in Europe, which for many years determined the political fate of France. Based on extensive materials from Russian and French archives and modern foreign literature, the author recreates the complex circumstances of the history of France in the first quarter of the 20th century, when this country once again ended up on the front flank of the world revolutionary movement. The heroes of the book are not only the largest political figures of the era - Jean Zhores, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Blum, but also the participants in the revolutionary events of the beginning of the century, who had been forgotten today, who once played a key role in the history of France. Many materials from the archive of the Communist International are published in the book for the first time. The book will be useful for researchers of new and recent history, teachers, historical students, as well as everyone who is interested in the history of France, left-wing ideas, socio-political conflicts of the last century.