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A '''Popular Front''' was a broad coalition of socialists that was created and dominated by the [[Communist party]] from 1935 to 1939 in opposition to fascists in Europe in the 1930s. The alliance was also called the '''People's Front''' and the '''Democratic Front'''.

A '''Popular Front''' was a broad coalition of socialists that was created and dominated by the [[Communist party]] from 1935 to 1939 in opposition to fascists in Europe in the 1930s. The alliance was also called the '''People's Front''' and the '''Democratic Front'''.

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, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, pg. 35.</ref>

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, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, pg. 35.</ref>

The Popular Front era ended with the signing of the [[Molotov-Ribbentrop pact]] and the Communazi period began which lasted until the June 21, 1941 when [[Operation Barbarossa|Gemany invaded the Soviet Union]].

The Popular Front era ended with the signing of the [[Molotov-Ribbentrop pact]] and the Communazi period began which lasted until the June 21, 1941 when [[Operation Barbarossa|Gemany invaded the Soviet Union]].