Union de la Gauche (1972-1978) in the “Bottleneck of the Archipelago”. The Political Implications of French Antitotalitarianism

Abstract

In 1972 the Socialist Party and the Communist French Party signed the Programme Commune du Gouvenement d'Union de la Gauche. Six years marked the electoral agenda of the two “historical enemies” in search of political convergence that remained an open debate, also animated by the current of antitotalitarian thought that increased public disrepute towards the pro-Soviet left and the PCF. Political and ideological differences between alternative government guidelines were amplified by the publication of Alexander Solgenitsin’s Gulag Archipelago which will significantly influence the philosophical discourse and French political dynamics of that historical ridge.