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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 [[fascist]]s 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]].

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