Class Struggle, the Communist Party, and the Popular Front in Canada, 1935-1939

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Author/contributor
Title
Class Struggle, the Communist Party, and the Popular Front in Canada, 1935-1939
Abstract
This thesis is an attempt to provide a critical history of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) during the Popular Front era, roughly November 1935 to September 1939. This study contains a detailed examination of the various stages of the Popular Front in Canada (the united front, the height of the Popular Front, and the Democratic front), with special attention paid to the CPC’s activities in: the youth movement, the labour movement, the unemployed movement, the peace movement, and the anti-fascist movement. From this I conclude that the implementation of the Popular Front, the transformation of the CPC from a revolutionary party to a bourgeois party, was not a smooth process, but instead was punctuated and resisted by elements within the CPC in what can be considered a process of class struggle internal to the CPC itself.
Type
M.A., Canadian and Indigenous Studies
University
Trent University
Place
Peterborough, Ont.
Date
2017
# of Pages
v, 220 pages
Language
English
Accessed
4/16/19, 1:38 PM
Library Catalog
ProQuest
Rights
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
Citation
Schoots-McAlpine, M. (2017). Class Struggle, the Communist Party, and the Popular Front in Canada, 1935-1939 [M.A., Canadian and Indigenous Studies, Trent University]. http://digitalcollections.trentu.ca/objects/etd-515?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=62753ae272d0928b6b41&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=0