Aaron Clift

Anticommunism in French Society and Politics, 1945-1953 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Anticommunism in French Society and Politics, 1945-1953 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198886792
• Artikelnr.: 68378855

Autorenporträt

Aaron Clift received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2022, following a Master's at the University of Toronto and a Bachelor's at the University of Victoria. He is currently a Postdoctoral History Scholar at the University of Calgary. He specializes in the social and political history of twentieth-century France in its European and global context as well as global Cold War history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Anticommunism in French Politics and Society, 1945-1953: An Overview
2: L'Affaire Bertier: Anticommunism in the French Scouting Movement
3: La Première Victime: Familialism and Anticommunism
4: Koulaks and Cocos: Anticommunism and French Agriculture
5: Marx vs. La Fontaine: Anticommunism and the Classes Moyennes
6: Le Parti du Prolétariat? Anticommunism and the Working Class
Conclusion