Edgard Morin (Auto-critique), Annie Kriegel (Ce que j'ai cru comprendre) and Claude Roy (Moi, je) go over step by step, since childhood, the tracks that took them to the PCF; the three of them have participated in the anti-nazism resistance, on the Soviet Union's side, occasion of their entrance in communism. Descriptions of a slow moral asphyxia are given, in which the statements show how the net of internal needs of political ideology ends up echoing in the net of the internal needs of subjectivity. This article, analyzing the autobiographies of three French writers in the moment when they give a critical account of their communist past, tries to apprehend the entirely negative historical figure of the relation to oneself in the so-called "communist counter-societies" during the stalinist period.
Autobiography; Individual; Political Regime; Stalinism