Rural Communism in France, 1920-1939Cornell University Press, 1998 - 266 páginas Communism has been an enduring presence on the French political scene for most of this century. It remains so in areas of the countryside, despite its collapse in the Soviet Union and in most of France's urban areas. Shifting the emphasis away from the often-studied relationship between communism and the working class, Laird Boswell proposes a new interpretation of the French Communist Party's success and illuminates rural social and political behavior during a critical period of economic crisis. Drawing on extensive interviews with thirty-four surviving communist militants and an analysis of voter behavior, this book focuses on the Party's persistent strength during the interwar period in such rural strongholds as the Limousin and the Dordogne. Boswell shows how communism introduced modern politics in isolated rural communities, revived networks of village sociability and culture, and responded to the state's inability to cope with the massive upheaval brought about by the gradual disappearance of peasant society. Boswell challenges standard interpretations that attribute Party success in rural areas to leftist voting traditions, red republicanism, or family structures. By showing how French peasants used the political arena to defend their interests, his book provides significant insights on the nature of European communism and on the transformation of the French countryside in the twentieth century. |
Índice
sites of interviews | 2 |
departments | 12 |
regions | 14 |
A Critical Constituency | 19 |
Communist vote 1924 | 30 |
Communist vote 1936 | 31 |
Communist vote 1946 | 36 |
Communist vote 1986 | 37 |
Communist vote 1936 | 77 |
Communist vote 1936 | 78 |
Forging Communism in the Countryside 19001920 ΙΙΟ | 110 |
Rural Society and Communism | 137 |
Militancy and Sociability | 165 |
active Communist cells 19201939 | 186 |
Organizing the Peasantry | 198 |
communes where Syndicats des Paysans Travailleurs existed 19201939 | 216 |
The Party of Stability | 43 |
The Patterns of Difference | 67 |
cantons | 69 |
Communist vote 1928 | 73 |
Communist vote 1936 | 74 |
Communist vote 1928 | 76 |
Governing at the Grass Roots | 221 |
Figures | 222 |
Conclusion | 235 |
The grave of Panteix Pardoux StGilleslesForêts HauteVienne 4 | 241 |
Appendix | 251 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Class Against Class: The Communist Party in Britain Between the Wars Matthew Worley No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2002 |
Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane Sarah Farmer Vista previa restringida - 1999 |