The Shifting Perspective: Yugoslav Communists and the Changes of French Communist Party’s Ideology during the Political Crisis of 1970s

Abstract

This article examines changes of Yugoslav perspectives of the reformist policies that were first adopted, and then abandoned by the French communists during the political crisis of the 1970s. In addition, it explores the development of relations between LCY and PCF, as well as numerous factors that could have influenced the process during which those relations evolved from the state of nearly constant conflict towards the state of cordial cooperation in less than a decade. The article is primarily based on the analysis of Yugoslav archival sources and thus far published scholarly literature form various fields of social sciences and humanities.