Institut Maurice Thorez ("Maurice Thorez Institute") was a French research institution linked to the French Communist Party.Bell, David Scott. Contemporary French Political Parties. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. p. 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.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 At the Institut Maurice Thorez communist historians were able to research without strict party control.Guiat, Cyrille. The French and Italian Communist Parties: Comrades and Culture. London: Frank Cass, 2003. p. 4 The Institute published Cahiers de l'Institut Maurice Thorez.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
Georges Cogniot was the founding director of the Institute, a position he held for various years.Lazić, Branko M., and Milorad M. Drachkovitch. Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern. Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press, 1986. p. 78Mehnert, Klaus. Moscow and the New Left. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. p. 293 As of 1978, Jean Burles served as director of the Institute.Bucharin, N. I. Selected Writings on the State and the Transition to Socialism. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1982. p. xxi
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 [Greater Manchester]: Manchester University Press, 1984. p. xv
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