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France Since 1871

Yale,, Fall 2007 , Prof. John Merriman

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

Overview

Introduction - The Paris Commune and Its Legacy - Centralized State and Republic - A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity - The Waning of Religious Authority - Workshop and Factory - Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left - Dynamite Club: The Anarchists - General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus - Cafs and the Culture of Drink - Paris and the Belle poque - French Imperialism (Guest Lecture by Charles Keith) - The Origins of World War I - Trench Warfare - The Home Front - The Great War, Grief, and Memory (Guest Lecture by Bruno Cabanes) - The Popular Front - The Dark Years: Vichy France - Resistance - Battles For and Against Americanization - Vietnam and Algeria - Charles De Gaulle - May 1968 - Immigration

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Lecture 7: Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left

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France Since 1871 (HIST 276)

The history of socialism in France can be understood in terms of the competition between revolutionary socialists and reform socialists. The former advocated abandoning electoral politics, while the latter attempted to improve conditions for workers by means of reforms within the political system. These two attitudes found figureheads in Jules Guesdes and Paul Brousse, respectively. Reform socialists and revolutionary socialists are united under the leadership of Jean Jaures, whose organizing efforts define and influence French socialism well into the twentieth century.

0000 - Chapter 1. The Lure of Revolutionary Socialism Jules Guesde, the Red Pope
1709 - Chapter 2. The Challenge of Reform Socialism Brousse and the Possibilists
2220 - Chapter 3. Fragile Integration Compromises in Municipal Socialism
3018 - Chapter 4. The Heroic Age of Syndicalism The Dream of Fernand Pelloutier
3832 - Chapter 5. Jean Jaures and the Unification of the Socialist Party

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This course was recorded in Fall 2007.