1789/1917, two competing lexical inheritances in the revolutionary narrative of the interwar ; 1789 / 1917, deux héritages lexicaux concurrents dans le discours révolutionnaire de l'entre-deux-guerres

Abstract

Communist discourse of origins — our findings will be limited to the interwar — can be defined as a revolutionary discourse by two of its main and original functions that settle with traditional republican archaetypes: organise the party in an obsessive manner, which is armed by the revolution, and encourage, on a daily basis, disruptive action, the fight and the general repetition of the great evening. These claims need first to be demonstrated. The rigorous comparison of Thorez's speech between 1930 and 1939, not only with the right-wing speech (P.E. Flandin and A. Tardieu), but better with the socialist discourse (L. Blum), will provide us with evidence of the revolutionary marginality of the speech. More subtly, these statements need to be qualified in a diachronistic way, since it is known that the Communist discourse is undergoing a major change in its current consensual form in the 30s: this change takes place around a benchmark shift in the revolutionary speech act defined no longer in relation to 1917 but in relation to 1789. ; International audience ; Communist discourse of origins — our findings will be limited to the interwar — can be defined as a revolutionary discourse by two of its main and original functions that settle with traditional republican archaetypes: organise the party in an obsessive manner, which is armed by the revolution, and encourage, on a daily basis, disruptive action, the fight and the general repetition of the great evening. These claims need first to be demonstrated. The rigorous comparison of Thorez's speech between 1930 and 1939, not only with the right-wing speech (P.E. Flandin and A. Tardieu), but better with the socialist discourse (L. Blum), will provide us with evidence of the revolutionary marginality of the speech. More subtly, these statements need to be qualified in a diachronistic way, since it is known that the Communist discourse is undergoing a major change in its current consensual form in the 30s: this change takes place around a benchmark shift in the ...