@phdthesis{discovery1349179,
           title = {The Chilean Communist Party 1922 - 1947.},
          school = {University of London},
            year = {1978},
            note = {Thesis digitised by British Library EthOS},
          author = {Barnard, A},
             url = {https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1349179/},
        abstract = {Founded in 1922 by Socialist who already exerted
considerable influence in the Chilean trade union movement,
the Chilean Communist Party was a communist party in name
only during its early years. It was not until the later
1920s that it began to acquire the organisational forms
and practices characteristic of all members of the Third
Communist International and not until the early 1930s that
it was led by men who gave unquestioning allegiance to
Moscow. Reduced to a shadow of its former self by prolonged
persecution in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the party's
fortunes did not begin to revive until after 1935, when the
Third International adopted policies which encouraged it to
become a regular participant in Chilean coalition politics.
Between 1935 and 1947, the party's fortunes fluctuated somewhat
in accordance with changing national and international
circumstances but coalition politics enabled it to play important
roles in the election of three successive Presidents
of the Republic, to extend its appeal to wider sectors of
society, to expand its electoral and trade union support and,
indirectly, to lay the basis for an increasingly effective
and professional party machine. In 1946, the party became
the first Latin American Communist Party to hold designated
portfolios in cabinet but its experience of high government
office was cut short by Cold War pressures - pressures which
eventually forced the party into a period of clandestinity
which lasted from 1947 until 1958.
This, then, is the broad chronological sweep of this
study. Within its context, particular attention is paid to
the party's relations with the International Communist Movement,
to its links with organised labour, to its organisational
development, to its electoral support and to its changing
relations with other Chilean parties.
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}