France and Fascism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317507258
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis France and Fascism by : Brian Jenkins

Download or read book France and Fascism written by Brian Jenkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis is the first English-language book to examine the most significant political event in interwar France: the Paris riots of February 1934. On 6 February 1934, thousands of fascist rioters almost succeeded in bringing down the French democratic regime. The violence prompted the polarisation of French politics as hundreds of thousands of French citizens joined extreme right-wing paramilitary leagues or the left-wing Popular Front coalition. This ‘French civil war’, the first shots of which were fired in February 1934, would come to an end only at the Liberation of France ten years later. The book challenges the assumption that the riots did not pose a serious threat to French democracy by providing a more balanced historical contextualisation of the events. Each chapter follows a distinctive analytical framework, incorporating the latest research in the field on French interwar politics as well as important new investigations into political violence and the dynamics of political crisis. With a direct focus on the actual processes of the unfolding political crisis and the dynamics of the riots themselves, France and Fascism offers a comprehensive analysis which will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as scholars, in the areas of French history and politics, and fascism and the far right.

Neither Right Nor Left

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691006291
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Neither Right Nor Left by : Zeev Sternhell

Download or read book Neither Right Nor Left written by Zeev Sternhell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Few books on European history in recent memory have caused such controversy and commotion," wrote Robert Wohl in 1991 in a major review of Neither Right nor Left. Listed by Le Monde as one of the forty most important books published in France during the 1980s, this explosive work asserts that fascism was an important part of the mainstream of European history, not just a temporary development in Germany and Italy but a significant aspect of French culture as well. Neither right nor left, fascism united antibourgeois, antiliberal nationalism, and revolutionary syndicalist thought, each of which joined in reflecting the political culture inherited from eighteenth-century France. From the first, Sternhell's argument generated strong feelings among people who wished to forget the Vichy years, and his themes drew enormous public attention in 1994, as Paul Touvier was condemned for crimes against humanity and a new biography probed President Mitterand's Vichy connections. The author's new preface speaks to the debates of 1994 and reinforces the necessity of acknowledging the past, as President Chirac has recently done on France's behalf.

France in the Era of Fascism

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845452971
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Book Synopsis France in the Era of Fascism by : Brian Jenkins

Download or read book France in the Era of Fascism written by Brian Jenkins and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the leading critics of the 'immunity thesis' to fascism in France in the 1930s - Robert Paxton, Zeev Sternhell and Robert Soucy - who have refined and updated their positions in these essays.

French Peasant Fascism

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195111893
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis French Peasant Fascism by : Robert O. Paxton

Download or read book French Peasant Fascism written by Robert O. Paxton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920s France the far-right peasantry wanted an authoritarian and agrarian society. This study examines their singular lack of success and the enduring French perception of themselves as a peasant nation.

Reproductions of Banality

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145290149X
Total Pages : 246 pages
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Book Synopsis Reproductions of Banality by : Alice Yaeger Kaplan

Download or read book Reproductions of Banality written by Alice Yaeger Kaplan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproductions of Banality was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. An established fascist state has never existed in France, and after World War II there was a tendency to blame the Nazi Occupation for the presence of fascists within the country. Yet the memory of fascism within their ranks still haunts French intellectuals, and questions about a French version of fascist ideology have returned to the political forefront again and again in the years since the war. In Reproductions of Banality, Alice Yaegar Kaplan investigates the development of fascist ideology as it was manifested in the culture of prewar and Occupied France. Precisely because it existed only in a "gathering" or formative stage, and never achieved the power that brings with it a bureaucratic state apparatus, French fascism never lost its utopian, communal elements, or its consequent aesthetic appeal. Kaplan weighs this fascist aesthetic and its puzzling power of attraction by looking closely at its material remains: the narratives, slogans, newspapers, and film criticism produced by a group of writers who worked in Paris in the 1930s and early 1940s — their "most real moment." These writers include Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Lucien Rebatat, Robert Brasillach, and Maurice Bardeche, as well as two precursors of French fascism, Georges Sorel and the Italian futurist F.T. Marinetti, who made of the airplane an industrial carrier of sexual fantasies and a prime mover in the transit from futurism to fascism. Kaplan's work is grounded in the major Marxist and psychoanalytic theories of fascism and in concepts of banality and mechanical reproduction that draw upon Walter Benjamin. Emphasizing the role played by the new technologies of sight and sound, she is able to suggest the nature of the long-repressed cultural and political climate that produced French fascism, and to show—by implication — that the mass marketing of ideology in democratic states bears a family resemblance to the fascist mode of an earlier time.

Nationalism, Anti-semitism, and Fascism in France

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ISBN 13 : 9780804732871
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (328 download)

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Book Synopsis Nationalism, Anti-semitism, and Fascism in France by : Michel Winock

Download or read book Nationalism, Anti-semitism, and Fascism in France written by Michel Winock and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a wide-ranging set of essays on political, literary, and cultural figures, this book traces the history of nationalism in France in all its permutations?its myths, obsessions, possibilities, and dangers.

French Literary Fascism

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691223033
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis French Literary Fascism by : David Carroll

Download or read book French Literary Fascism written by David Carroll and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide a sustained critical analysis of the literary-aesthetic dimension of French fascism--the peculiarly French form of what Walter Benjamin called the fascist "aestheticizing of politics." Focusing first on three important extremist nationalist writers at the turn of the century and then on five of the most visible fascist intellectuals in France in the 1930s, David Carroll shows how both traditional and modern concepts of art figure in the elaboration of fascist ideology--and in the presentation of fascism as an art of the political. Carroll is concerned with the internal relations of fascism and literature--how literary fascists conceived of politics as a technique for fashioning a unified people and transforming the disparate elements of society into an organic, totalized work of art. He explores the logic of such aestheticizing, as well as the assumptions about art, literature, and culture at the basis of both the aesthetics and politics of French literary fascists. His book reveals how not only classical humanism but also modern aesthetics that defend the autonomy and integrity of literature became models for xenophobic forms of nationalism and extreme "cultural" forms of anti-Semitism. A cogent analysis of the ideological function of literature and culture in fascism, this work helps us see the ramifications of thinking of literature or art as the truth or essence of politics.

The French Right Between the Wars

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782382410
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Book Synopsis The French Right Between the Wars by : Samuel Kalman

Download or read book The French Right Between the Wars written by Samuel Kalman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the interwar years France experienced severe political polarization. At the time many observers, particularly on the left, feared that the French right had embraced fascism, generating a fierce debate that has engaged scholars for decades, but has also obscured critical changes in French society and culture during the 1920s and 1930s. This collection of essays shifts the focus away from long-standing controversies in order to examine various elements of the French right, from writers to politicians, social workers to street fighters, in their broader social, cultural, and political contexts. It offers a wide-ranging reassessment of the structures, mentalities, and significance of various conservative and extremist organizations, deepening our understanding of French and European history in a troubled yet fascinating era.

Transnational Neofascism in France and Italy

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316298523
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis Transnational Neofascism in France and Italy by : Andrea Mammone

Download or read book Transnational Neofascism in France and Italy written by Andrea Mammone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the establishment, evolution, and international links of the extreme right in one of the main Western European areas. Andrea Mammone details the long journey in the development of right-wing extremism in France and Italy, emphasizing the transfer, exchange, and borrowing of ideals, personnel, and strategies and the similarities among neofascist movements, activists, and thinkers across national boundaries from 1945 to the present day - including the Cold War years, the election of the European Parliament in 1979, and the 2014 EU elections. Mammone analyzes the adaptation of neofascism in society and politics; the building of international associations and pan-national networks; and the right-leaning responses to the defeat of fascism, European integration, decolonization, the events of 1968, immigration, and the recent EU-led austerity politics. As a book implicitly on space, borders, and belonging, it shows how some nationalisms may embody a transnational dimension and, at times, even pan-European stances.

French Fascism

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300070439
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis French Fascism by : Robert Soucy

Download or read book French Fascism written by Robert Soucy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did fascism have a significant following in France in the 1930s? Were its supporters predominantly from the political right or left? This provocative book, in conjunction with its acclaimed predecessor, French Fascism: The First Wave, demolishes the notion that fascism never took hold in France. Robert Soucy argues that France has a long-standing fascist tradition, one that arose, he argues, more from counterrevolutionary forces on the right than from forces on the left. Analyzing fascist "double-talk," Soucy underscores the social and economic conservatism of such mass movements as Francisme, the Solidarit� Fran�aise, the Parti Populaire Fran�ais, and the Croix de Feu--as well as the ideological and membership crossovers between them. Examining police reports of the era, he penetrates beneath the "socialist" rhetoric of these movements and describes their financial backing from the steel and electricity industries and the middle- and lower-middle-class constituencies (rather than workers) who provided most of their recruits. Soucy investigates why thousands of French men and women found fascist ideas attractive during this period and what fueled the more authoritarian and brutal aspects of French fascism. According to Soucy, these tendencies (seen most recently in the right-wing activity of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front) periodically emerge from perceived threats from "alien" elements in French society--whether they be Communists, Socialists, immigrants, Jews, feminists, hedonists, democrats, or liberals "soft" on Marxism and secularism.

Gender and Fascism in Modern France

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874518146
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (181 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender and Fascism in Modern France by : Melanie Hawthorne

Download or read book Gender and Fascism in Modern France written by Melanie Hawthorne and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering the ways gender issues are articulated in the cultures of the extreme right in modern France.

Avant-Garde Fascism

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822390477
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Avant-Garde Fascism by : Mark Antliff

Download or read book Avant-Garde Fascism written by Mark Antliff and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France, Mark Antliff examines the aesthetic dimension of fascist myth-making within the history of the avant-garde. Between 1909 and 1939, a surprising array of modernists were implicated in this project, including such well-known figures as the symbolist painter Maurice Denis, the architects Le Corbusier and Auguste Perret, the sculptors Charles Despiau and Aristide Maillol, the “New Vision” photographer Germaine Krull, and the fauve Maurice Vlaminck. Antliff considers three French fascists: Georges Valois, Philippe Lamour, and Thierry Maulnier, demonstrating how they appropriated the avant-garde aesthetics of cubism, futurism, surrealism, and the so-called Retour à l’Ordre (“Return to Order”), and, in one instance, even defined the “dynamism” of fascist ideology in terms of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s theory of montage. For these fascists, modern art was the mythic harbinger of a regenerative revolution that would overthrow existing governmental institutions, inaugurate an anticapitalist new order, and awaken the creative and artistic potential of the fascist “new man.” In formulating the nexus of fascist ideology, aesthetics, and violence, Valois, Lamour, and Maulnier drew primarily on the writings of the French political theorist Georges Sorel, whose concept of revolutionary myth proved central to fascist theories of cultural and national regeneration in France. Antliff analyzes the impact of Sorel’s theory of myth on Valois, Lamour, and Maulnier. Valois created the first fascist movement in France; Lamour, a follower of Valois, established the short-lived Parti Fasciste Révolutionnaire in 1928 before founding two fascist-oriented journals; Maulnier forged a theory of fascism under the auspices of the journals Combat and Insurgé.

France and Fascism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131750724X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis France and Fascism by : Brian Jenkins

Download or read book France and Fascism written by Brian Jenkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis is the first English-language book to examine the most significant political event in interwar France: the Paris riots of February 1934. On 6 February 1934, thousands of fascist rioters almost succeeded in bringing down the French democratic regime. The violence prompted the polarisation of French politics as hundreds of thousands of French citizens joined extreme right-wing paramilitary leagues or the left-wing Popular Front coalition. This ‘French civil war’, the first shots of which were fired in February 1934, would come to an end only at the Liberation of France ten years later. The book challenges the assumption that the riots did not pose a serious threat to French democracy by providing a more balanced historical contextualisation of the events. Each chapter follows a distinctive analytical framework, incorporating the latest research in the field on French interwar politics as well as important new investigations into political violence and the dynamics of political crisis. With a direct focus on the actual processes of the unfolding political crisis and the dynamics of the riots themselves, France and Fascism offers a comprehensive analysis which will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as scholars, in the areas of French history and politics, and fascism and the far right.

A Small City in France

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674810976
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis A Small City in France by : Françoise Gaspard

Download or read book A Small City in France written by Françoise Gaspard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The town of Dreux--60 miles from Paris--made history in 1983 when Le Pen's National Front earned startling electoral gains in the region, establishing it as the forerunner of neofascist advances across the nation. A trained historian and the city's socialist mayor from 1977 to 1983, Gaspard offers us a picture of a particular town in a broad context.

The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415239813
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (398 download)

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Book Synopsis The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present by : Peter Davies

Download or read book The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present written by Peter Davies and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1789, the far right has been an important factor in French political life and in different eras has taken on a range of different guises. This work surveys the history of this contentious political and intellectual tradition.

Fascist Visions

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691241961
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis Fascist Visions by : Matthew Affron

Download or read book Fascist Visions written by Matthew Affron and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, Fascist Visions explores the themes and paradigms that pervaded protofascist and fascist aesthetic discourse, cultural policy, and artistic production in France and Italy. Whether traditionalist or innovative in idiom, art functioned as the expression of fascism's ideological polarities: nihilism and idealism, modernism and antimodernism, revolution and reaction. This volume charts the unfolding of fascist aesthetics from its genesis in nationalist and antimaterialist ideologies before World War I to its full development during the interwar period and World War II. It also highlights the shared motivations of advocates of fascist aesthetics, including artists, art critics, political activists, and government officials, outside of Germany. The eight essays in this book investigate the intersection of fascist ideology and aesthetics through a wide range of historical examples. Topics include: theories of cultural regeneration in Italy from the Risorgimento to fascism; the impact of fascism upon the work of such artists and art critics as Ardengo Soffici, Mario Sironi, Valentine de Saint-Point, and Waldemar George; the theories of modernist urbanism developed by Georges Valois's Faisceau; and official sponsorship of painting and the decorative arts in Mussolini's Italy and in Vichy France. The contributors to this volume include Walter Adamson, Matthew Affron, Mark Antliff, Emily Braun, Michèle Cone, Emilio Gentile, Nancy Locke, and Marla Stone.

The Collaborator

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226424149
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (241 download)

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Book Synopsis The Collaborator by : Alice Kaplan

Download or read book The Collaborator written by Alice Kaplan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-04-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad.