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The Formation of the Cold War System and the French Communist Party’s Propaganda: The Transition of 1947 and L’Humanité’s Strategy for Creating Cold War Emotions

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2025, (53), pp.169~193
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : August 5, 2025
  • Accepted : August 21, 2025
  • Published : August 31, 2025

Shin, Dongkyu 1

1국립창원대학교

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ABSTRACT

In the beginning of the Cold War, the French Communist Party utilized emotional language to spread a feeling of trust about the Soviet Union and that of distrust against Britain. After the announcement of the Marshall Plan, they evoked the pain of past experiences among their supporters and created a Cold War community of emotions, contrasting boundless feelings of trust in the Soviet Union against feelings of distrust of the United States. These emotional expressions functioned as propaganda to mobilize collective emotions during the Cold War. Sharing historical experiences, French Communists who familiar with the discipline of the Communist Party, created an emotional system that empathized with the discourses of Thorez through the pages of L’Humanité. They also created an emotional mechanism that mobilized a common sentiment among the French communistes by utilizing collective memories derived from shared historical experience.

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