Popular Front strategy of the Communist International

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The Popular Front strategy of the Communist International was a mid-1930s policy shift in which communist parties were directed to form broad alliances with socialists and other anti-fascist forces to combat the rise of fascism and defend democracy.

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instanceOf policy line of the Communist International
political strategy
adoptedUnderLeadershipOf Georgi Dimitrov
aimedAt building broad anti-fascist alliances
combating fascism
defending democracy
appliedBy Comintern
Comintern
surface form: Communist International
associatedWith Popular Front (France)
surface form: Popular Front government in France

Popular Front (Spain)
surface form: Popular Front government in Spain

anti-fascist cultural movements
characterizedBy cooperation with bourgeois democratic parties
emphasis on national unity against fascism
moderation of revolutionary rhetoric
coreTactic electoral collaboration with non-communist parties
formation of Popular Front governments
united mass mobilization against fascist movements
criticizedBy Trotskyist movements
left-communist currents
criticizedFor diluting revolutionary goals
reliance on bourgeois allies
directedTo communist parties
encouragedAllianceWith liberal democratic forces
other anti-fascist forces
social democrats
socialist parties
goal build mass legitimacy for communist parties
prevent fascist seizure of power
protect working-class organizations from repression
historicalContext Great Depression
interwar period
ideologicalOrientation anti-fascist
pro-democracy
implementedIn Chile
Czechoslovakia
France
Spain
United States of America
surface form: United States
influencedBy failure of earlier sectarian policies
rise of Italian Fascism
rise of Nazi Germany
threat of fascist coups in Europe
justifiedBy analysis of fascism as main enemy
need to defend bourgeois democracy against fascism
precededBy Third Period strategy of the Communist International
replacedPolicyOf class-against-class line
supportedBy Soviet Union
timePeriod mid-1930s

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Popular Front (Italy) inspiredBy Popular Front strategy of the Communist International