French Intellectuals' Stalinism (1:56) -- Trotskyism (0:35) -- Congress for the Defense of Culture (1:55) -- Nizan (1:47) -- Retracing Gide's Travels (2:28) -- Gide at Sochi (1:10) -- Gide's Disillusionment (1:38) -- Failure of Post-War Intellectuals (0:34) -- Communist Post-War Prestige (2:56) -- Communists and Peace Movement (0:47) -- Intellectuals Submit to Party Doctrine (3:14) -- Anti-Communism Emerges (0:48) -- Malraux and Aron (1:38) -- Kravchenko Trial (1:31) -- Camus (1:36) -- Camus Becomes Major Figure (1:26) -- Jeanson Attacks Camus (1:27) -- Hungary and Doubts about USSR (2:26) -- Algerian Independence Movement (0:36) -- French Torture Chamber in Algeria (3:01) -- French Left and Algerian War (1:45) -- Camus and Algeria War (1:44) -- Intellectuals Turn Against France (2:57) -- Intellectuals, Communists and Algeria (0:54) -- Third Worldism (0:58) -- Genet's Rejection of the West (1:22) -- Zionism (0:38) -- Anti-European Enthusiasm (1:17) -- Fanon (1:54) -- Revolutionary Visions of Purity (2:02) -- Credits: Lost Illusions: French Intellectuals in the 20th Century (1:49)
Summary
This program covers the following topics: the French Communist Party and anti-Stalinism; the Algerian War; Jean Genet; Franz Fanon; Sartre; and the cause of Third World revolution
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on October 26, 2013
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