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L'amie inconnue de Jean Moulin
Jeanne Boullen (prononcer "Boulène") fut l'amie inconnue de Jean Moulin — pas sa petite amie, simplement son amie. Fille d'ouvriers protestants, elle se fait infirmière. Timide mais intrépide, aussi rieuse que sérieuse, elle s'engage à corps perdu dans la "défense passive" dès le début de la guerre et, ayant recontré le préfet de Chartres dans la débâcle de mai 1940, elle en devient la collaboratrice dévouée, l'admiratrice sincère, l'amoureuse sans espoir. Jusqu'en 1942, Jeanne sert de coursier à Jean Moulin, remplit les missions qu'il lui confie, tout en aidant les uns et en sauvant les autres des griffes vichystes et nazies, et non sans épouser un jeune poète juif autrichien, lui donner deux fils, avant de partir en Israël en 1945. Après deux années de recherches, Jacques Baynac a retrouvé la famille de cette "belle personne" et, dans une vieille valise grise, les cahiers de souvenirs de Jeanne, restés inconnus de tous.
The Future of a Negation
The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust?and on Holocaust denial?from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe. The book examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent ?revisionist? attempts to deny its full dimensions and, in some cases, its very existence as historical fact. Finkielkraut?s central topic is the impulse toward ?negation? of the Nazi horrors: the arguments made by many people, of varying political orientations, that ?the gas chambers are a hoax or, in any case, an unverifiable rumor.? In addition, Finkielkraut looks at other instances of twentieth-century mass murder and at arguments made by contemporary politicians and intellectuals that similarly deny the full extent of these other atrocities. An original, fearless book, The Future of a Negation is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and of genocidal politics and thought in our century.
Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe
The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today’s eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing sense of the need to stage a more “self-critical” memory has significantly changed the way in which western Europe commemorates and memorializes the past. The increasing dissatisfaction among scholars with the blanket, undifferentiated use of the term “collective memory” is evolving in new directions. This volume brings the tension into focus while addressing the state of memory theory itself.
Mai 68, le Débat
À croire qu’on ne finira pas de sitôt de célébrer Mai 68. Il y a d’abord la singularité de ce mouvement essentiellement anti-autoritaire. Pour la première fois, on vit se manifester une force subversive créée par l’abondance et non plus par la misère, une force qui ne voulait plus mourir pour la révolution mais vivre grâce à elle, une force qui voulait changer la vie autant que le monde, mais qui refusait de compter sur la prise du pouvoir pour ce faire. Il y a ensuite l’héritage. Affaite d’une génération arrivée aux commandes depuis lors, Mai 68 apparaît désormais comme une révolution culturelle à long terme – bouleversant les mœurs, l’amour et la famille ; installant l’individu en majesté dans la sphère politique ; chahutant les hiérarchies et faisant triompher la notion d’autonomie jusque dans l’organisation industrielle de la production ; créant des rapports nouveaux à l’information, aux médias et à l’image. Cet ouvrage reprend des contributions parues dans la revue Le Débat.
The Story of Tatiana
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Rethinking Revolution
One hundred years ago, “October 1917” galvanized leftists and oppressed peoples around the globe, and became the lodestar for 20th century politics. Today, the left needs to reckon with this legacy—and transcend it. Social change, as it was understood in the 20th century, appears now to be as impossible as revolution, leaving the left to rethink the relationship between capitalist crises, as well as the conceptual tension between revolution and reform. Populated by an array of passionate thinkers and thoughtful activists, Rethinking Revolution reappraises the historical effects of the Russian revolution—positive and negative—on political, intellectual, and cultural life, and looks ...
The Making of the Georgian Nation, Second Edition
". . . the best study in English to date for an understanding of Georgian nationalism." —Religious Studies Review ". . . the standard account of Georgian history in English." —American Historical Review ". . . tour de force research . . . fascinating reading." —American Political Science Review Like the other republics floating free after the demise of the Soviet empire, the independent republic of Georgia is reinventing its past, recovering what had been forgotten or distorted during the long years of Russian and Soviet rule. Whether Georgia can successfully be transformed from a society rent by conflict into a pluralistic democratic nation will depend on Georgians rethinking their history. This is the first comprehensive treatment of Georgian history, from the ethnogenesis of the Georgians in the first millennium B.C., through the period of Russian and Soviet rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the emergence of an independent republic in 1991, the ethnic and civil warfare that has ensued, and perspectives for Georgia's future.
Memories of May '68
For over forty years now, the French events of 1968 have been the focus of much attention both within France and beyond. While mai 68 is certainly seen as a watershed in the development of French society, a common narrative that portrays it in an increasingly reductive light has become prevalent. In fact it is less and less portrayed as the very serious nationwide crisis and largest strike in French history but more as a bon-enfant tantrum led principally by a spoilt generation of Parisian students intent on wreaking havoc during a period of much required – and today much longed for – political and economic stability. 2008 saw a continuation in the decennial commemorations that have been...
