Whitney Mobilizing Youth

Communists and Catholics in Interwar France
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9156-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 332 Seiten

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Examines how young people moved to the forefront of politics in France in the early twentieth century, analyzing how Communist and Catholic attempts to mobilize youth created youth movements with members who carried their commitments into WWII.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whitney, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. The Politics of Age and Generation in French Communism, 1920–1931 16

2. Building a Communist Youth Organization 51

3. Age, Generation, and Catholic Anticommunism: The Emergence of the J.O.C 80

4. Rereading the J.O.C. through the Lens of Gender: Young Women and the J.O.C.F. 107

5. Youth and the Emergence of Communist Antifascist Politics 137

6. Embracing the Status Quo: Communists, Young People, and Popular Front Politics 171

7. Refusing la main tendue: Catholics, the J.O.C., and the Challenge of Communist Popular Front Societies 209

Conclusion 243

Notes 251

Bibliography of Primary Resources 303

Index 307

Über Autor(innen)

Susan B. Whitney is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.