Abstract
This article investigates the cultural politics of the French Communist Party during the Popular Front years as a precursor to the post-war cultural turn. It explores the communist appropriation of French national, popular, and republican cultural traditions, and the attempts to merge this French heritage with proletarian and working-class cultural legacies. The concept of the 'popular' proved crucial to the forging of a new left-wing national identity that combined class solidarity with national belonging. Communists' success at doing so, in spite of the ambiguities the approach entailed, was a key element in their increased influence in this period, especially among workers.
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