Format:
x, 257 Seiten
ISBN:
9780198886785
Series Statement:
Oxford historical monographs
Content:
This volume evaluates the prevalence of anticommunism among the French population in 1945 to 1953, and examines its causes, character, and consequences through a series of case studies on different segments of French society. These include the scouting movement; family organisations; agricultural associations; middle-class groups; and trade unions and other working-class organisations. Aaron Clift contends that anticommunism was more widespread and deeply rooted than previously believed, and had a substantial impact on national politics and on these social groups and organisations. Furthermore, he argues that the study of anticommunism allows us a deeper understanding of the values they regarded as the most important to defend. Although anticommunism was a diverse phenomenon, this work identifies common discourses, including portrayals of communism as a threat to the nation; the colonial empire; the traditional family; private property; religion; the rural world; and Western civilisation. It also highlights common aims (such as the rehabilitation of wartime collaborators) and tactics (such as the invocation of apoliticism). While acknowledging the importance of the Cold War, it rejects the assumption that anticommunism was an American import or foreign to French society and demonstrates links between anticommunism and anti-Americanism. It concludes that anticommunism drew its strength from the connection or even conflation of communism with perceived negative social changes that were seen to threaten traditional French civilisation, interacting with the postwar international and domestic environment and the personal experiences of individual anticommunists.
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Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 221-249
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"This monograph is based on a dissertation I prepared for a DPhil at the University of Oxford." (Preface, Seite v)
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Dissertation University of Oxford 2022
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Introduction1: Anticommunism in French Politics and Society, 1945-1953: An Overview2: L'Affaire Bertier: Anticommunism in the French Scouting Movement3: La Première Victime: Familialism and Anticommunism4: Koulaks and Cocos: Anticommunism and French Agriculture5: Marx vs. La Fontaine: Anticommunism and the Classes Moyennes6: Le Parti du Prolétariat? Anticommunism and the Working ClassConclusion
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198886808
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Clift, Aaron Anticommunism in French society and politics, 1945-1953 Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023 ISBN 9780191994432
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780198886785.001.0001
