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From 1919 onwards, the diversity of languages of working-class movements seemed to be overcome by the Communist movement and the Komintern, which centralized and spread Russian-speaking propaganda. In France, the Communist party – linked to the Third International – became the main vehicle for this diffusion through the setting up of a well-structured propaganda service in the 1920s. Between the two World wars, the party strengthened its editorial organization, a fact which this bibliometric analysis helps to evaluate and qualify. If Russian then became the language of the Communist International, it wasn’t that of French activists, who cared little for translations.