title: The French left and Russia: History and modernity
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metadata.value: Kostiuk, Ruslan V.
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metadata.value: 2022-08-10T16:07:59Z
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metadata.value: 2022-08-10T16:07:59Z
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metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Kostiuk R. V. The French left and Russia: History and modernity. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2022, vol. 15, issue 1, pp. 64–85.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu06.2022.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37312
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metadata.value: The article analyzes approaches of France’s leading left forces towards Russia (USSR) from
  beginning of the 20th century to the present. At beginning of the twentieth century, almost
  all parts of the French left expressed hatred of the Russian monarchy and, at the same time,
  solidarity with the struggle of democratic and socialist forces in Russia for freedom and a
  republic. The question of the attitude to Soviet Russia played a central role in the historic split
  of the SFIO in 1920 and in the future for decades to come; “the Soviet question” was the line
  of the watershed between the two leading French left-wing parties, SFIO (SP) and FCP. If the
  communists from the very creation of the Party took a position of total solidarity with Soviet
  internal and foreign policy, the socialists, speaking for the development of equal and friendly
  relations with the Soviet Union, criticized domestic political realities of the Soviet Union and
  Moscow’s foreign policy. The collapse of the USSR led to serious changes in the perception of
  Russia in French leftist circles of France. The French left was characterized by an ambiguous
  attitude towards Boris Yeltsin’s policies. As before, the French left is expressing its sympathy
  for the Russian people. However, in general, most of the French left movement at present
  negatively evaluates the socio-economic and domestic political evolution of Russia, as well
  as Moscow’s foreign policy in the first two decades of the 21st century. First, this applies to
  positions of the socialists and the Greens. The Communist Party opposes the dignity to the
  insulating pressure on Moscow. For their part, politicians and power related to left populist
  and left patriotic direction see Russia as a strategic ally in the struggle for more equitable international
  relations.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 15; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: France
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia
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metadata.value: USSR
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metadata.value: left
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: foreign policy
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The French left and Russia: History and modernity
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