Engagement philosoviétique et posture sociologique dans l'entre-deux-guerres : le rôle politico-intellectuel de Georges Friedmann

This in-depth biographical study of Georges Friedmann's itinerary during the period between the two World wars draws from private records and the Communist movement's archives. It highlights this sociologist's pivotal role between the Communist world and academic circles in France. In the 1930s, Friedmann helped to legitimate Marxism in the French social sciences, even among Durkheimians who had proven resistant to Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels's ideas since the end of the 19th century. Friedmann's political and intellectual stance would, however, become untenable in the late 1930s given the closing of the Communist world.