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A popular front was a broad coalition of socialists and even communists united in opposition to a right-wing group, particularly in opposition to fascists in Europe in the 1930s.
A '''Popular Front''' was a broad coalition of socialists and even communists united in opposition to a right-wing group, particularly in opposition to fascists in Europe in the 1930s.
The year 1938 marked the zenith of the [[Communist Party]]'s Popular Front policy. Under [[CPUSA]] General Secretary [[Earl Browder]]'s leadership this policy had won American Communists a measure of respect and influence on the [[left wing]] of the [[New Deal]] coalition, as well as in the new [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO). The [[Comintern]] was pleased that the American Communist movement had, at last, achieved some clout. It certainly approved of the Popular Front policy; that, after all, had been initiated by Comintern General Secretary [[Georgi Dimitrov]] in 1935. [[William Z. Foster]], however, believed that Browder had allowed the program to get out of hand by offering excessive support to President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] and [[John L. Lewis]]. <ref>''The Soviet World of American Communism'', Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes & Kyrill M. Anderson, HARVEY KLEHR, JOHN EARL HAYNES & KYRILL M. ANDERSON, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, pg. 35.</ref>
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[[category:political movements]]
[[category:political movements]]