Abstract
GROPPO, B. Labor movement biographical dictionaries: A comparative analyses of a scientific genre. From the 1960´s on, studies on collective biographies focusing on the labor movement, experienced a considerable development, both in France and in many other countries, and resulted in the creation of a certain number of dictionaries and databases of biographic information. The multiplication of those initiatives, then, testifies the diffusion of a new historiographical sensibility. The sociobiographical approach, inaugurated in France by the Maitron, contributed to overcome the labor movement traditional historiography, which focused on organizations, ideologies and leaders. With its interest in the “obscure” activists, it provided, among other things, the reconstruction, taking individual trajectories as a starting point, of the profile of different generations of activists. The article displays an overview of existent biographical dictionaries. It presents, as well, the main works of collective biography related to the communist movement produced after the opening of the Russian and other communist parties’ archives.
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