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Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements Trotskyste et Révolutionnaires Internationaux

archive of Trotskyist material in Paris, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ5062333 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements Trotskyste et Révolutionnaires Internationaux or Centre for Study and Research on the International Trotskyist and Revolutionary Movements (CERMTRI) is an archive of primarily Trotskyist material in Paris, France. Its origin lies with the documentation of the OCI and its members but it has grown to include other historical publications, documents and archives as well.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements Trotskyste et Révolutionnaires Internationaux” is archive of Trotskyist material in Paris, France. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Centre, d'Etudes and Recherches, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 63-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Centre, d'Etudes and Recherches is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “archive of Trotskyist material in Paris, France” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5062333. VIAF identifies the subject as 156681090. The Library of Congress control number is n82104866. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements Trotskyste et Révolutionnaires Internationaux” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.