Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "A Communist front organization is an organization identified to be a front organization under the effective control of a Communist party, the Communist International or other Communist organizations. They attracted politicized individuals who were not Party members but who often followed the Party line and were called Fellow travellers.Lenin originated the idea in his manifesto of 1902, \"What Is to Be Done?\". Since the party was illegal in Russia, he proposed to reach the masses through \"a large number of other organizations intended for wide membership and, which, therefore, can be as loose and as public as possible,\" Generally called \"mass organizations\" by the Communists themselves, these groups were prevalent from the 1920s through the 1950s, with their use accelerating during the Popular Front period of the 1930s. The term has also been used to refer to organizations not originally Communist-controlled which after a time became so, such as the American Student Union. The term was especially used by anti-communists during the cold war (1947-1991)."@en }
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- Communist_front abstract "A Communist front organization is an organization identified to be a front organization under the effective control of a Communist party, the Communist International or other Communist organizations. They attracted politicized individuals who were not Party members but who often followed the Party line and were called Fellow travellers.Lenin originated the idea in his manifesto of 1902, \"What Is to Be Done?\". Since the party was illegal in Russia, he proposed to reach the masses through \"a large number of other organizations intended for wide membership and, which, therefore, can be as loose and as public as possible,\" Generally called \"mass organizations\" by the Communists themselves, these groups were prevalent from the 1920s through the 1950s, with their use accelerating during the Popular Front period of the 1930s. The term has also been used to refer to organizations not originally Communist-controlled which after a time became so, such as the American Student Union. The term was especially used by anti-communists during the cold war (1947-1991).".