Sartre Against Stalinism

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-57181-542-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 379 g

Reihe: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies

Most critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul Sartre have laid emphasis on his allegedly sympathetic and uncritical attitude to Stalinist Communism due, to a large extent, to their equation of Marxism with Stalinism. It is true that Sartre was guilty of many serious misjudgements with regard to the USSR and the French Communist Party. But his relationship with the Marxist Left was much more complex and co tradictory than most accounts admit. This book offers a political defence of Sartre and shows how, from a relatively apolitical stance in the 1930s, Sartre became increasingly involved in the politics of the Left; though he always distrusted Stalinism, he was sometimes driven to ally himself with it because of the force of its argument.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birchall, Ian H.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Bibliographical Note

Abbreviations

Chronology

Chapter 1. Introduction: Claiming the Corpse

PART I: THE MAKING OF A REBEL

Chapter 2. ‘La Communiste’

Chapter 3. The Threat of Fascism

Chapter 4. War within War

PART II: POSTWAR CHOICES

Chapter 5. The Better Choice

Chapter 6. Materialism or Revolution?

Chapter 7. The Spectre of Trotsky

Chapter 8. The RDR

Chapter 9. Which Camp?

PART III: RAPPROCHMENT WITH STALINISM

Chapter 10. Reorientation

Chapter 11. Dangerous Liaison

Chapter 12. Debate with the Far Left

Chapter 13. Laying the Ghost

PART IV: TOWARDS A NEW LEFT

Chapter 14. From Practice to Theory

Chapter 15. The Battle over Algeria

Chapter 16. Rebuilding the Left

Chapter 17. May to December

Chapter 18. Conclusion: Sartre’s Century?

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Birchall, Ian H.
Ian H. Birchall, formerly Senior Lecturer in French at Middlesex University, is now an independent writer.  His books include The Spectre of Babeuf (1997).  He has written numerous articles and reviews in academic and political journals, especially on French literature, Sartre and on the history of socialism, and has translated works by Victor Serge and Alfred Rosmer.  He is a member of the Socialist Workers Party.

Ian H. Birchall, formerly Senior Lecturer in French at Middlesex University, is now an independent writer.  His books include The Spectre of Babeuf (1997).  He has written numerous articles and reviews in academic and political journals, especially on French literature, Sartre and on the history of socialism, and has translated works by Victor Serge and Alfred Rosmer.  He is a member of the Socialist Workers Party.