The Popular Front and Central Europe
Title | The Popular Front and Central Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Jordan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2002-08-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521522427 |
A study of French policies in Central Europe from Versailles until the fall of France.
The Popular Front in Europe
Title | The Popular Front in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Graham |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 1988-12-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1349106186 |
Out of the social and economic turmoil of Europe in the 1930s, the Popular Front emerged as the spearhead of the left's bid to stop fascism in its tracks. Fifty years on from the birth of the Popular Front this edited collection assesses the impact of the idea of bourgeois-proletarian alliance on the European left as a whole. It also examines the fate of the Popular Front governments, both in France, which remained nominally 'at peace', and in Spain, where the bitter strife over social and economic reform erupted into open civil war.
Return to Diversity
Title | Return to Diversity PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Rothschild |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
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Written by one of the world's foremost authorities on East Central Europe, Return to Diversity has proven to be an invaluable guide for readers of modern European history and politics. This third edition introduces a new co-author, Nancy M. Wingfield, and has been fully updated to take into account recent and ongoing developments in the region.
The Popular Front in France
Title | The Popular Front in France PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Jackson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1990-05-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521312523 |
This is the first full-length study in English of the Popular Front, the left-wing coalition which emerged in France during the 1930s in response to the threat of fascism and which went on to win the elections of 1936, giving France her first socialist premier, Léon Blum. After a brief narrative history of the Popular Front the book is organised thematically around the main historiographical debates to which the Popular Front has given rise. Among the issues considered are the origins of the strikes of 1936, the reasons for the failure of the Popular Front economic policy, the relationship between culture and politics in France in the 1930s and the causes of France's policy of non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War. The book views the Popular Front at three levels - as a mass movement, political coalition and government - and argues that it must not be seen just as a narrowly political phenomenon but as a political, social and cultural explosion which attempted to break down the barriers between all areas of human activity in the highly compartmentalised society of France in the 1930s. Even if the Popular Front ultimately failed in this aim it has acquired legendary status in France, and the epilogue to the book briefly examines the 'myth' of the Popular Front from 1936 to the present day.
Revolution by Degrees
Title | Revolution by Degrees PDF eBook |
Author | Eduard Maximilian Mark |
Publisher | |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Russia |
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The Socialist Regimes of East Central Europe
Title | The Socialist Regimes of East Central Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Jerzy Tomaszewski |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
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Beginning with an account of the social and political situation in Eastern Europe in 1944 , the author discusses the political changes in the area under the impact of internal struggles and the influence of the Great Powers.
Contemporary Europe
Title | Contemporary Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Stuart Hughes |
Publisher | Prentice Hall |
Pages | 680 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | History |
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