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The Black Book of Communism
This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.
Le Parti de l'ennemi ?
Sous la IVe République, les Français eurent peur. Dans le ciel de Corée, les duels entre pilotes américains et soviétiques donnaient à l'expression « guerre froide » une amère saveur. Les tanks soviétiques étaient « à deux étapes du Tour de France cycliste ». Ces propos du général de Gaulle n'étaient pas pris à la légère, les anticommunistes en tirant argument pour vouloir réduire le PCF au silence. Premier parti de France, celui-ci affichait son intention d'accueillir l'Armée rouge à bras ouverts si jamais elle devait « poursuivre ses agresseurs » jusque sur le sol de l'hexagone. Écartelés entre Washington et Moscou, encore sous le choc de leur défaite face à l...
Le pacifisme, une passion française
De Sedan à Bagdad, les divers pacifismes français font l'objet de ce livre dans la mesure où ils signalent une position circonstanciée de refus de la guerre. Les attitudes d'hostilité à la participation aux conflits furent tributaires de la mutation de deux éléments conditionnant également les choix bellicistes : le nationalisme - attentif tout autant à la décadence qu'à la menace externe - et la révolution sociale - y compris sous sa version soviétisée -, deux passions entretenant avec le pacifisme une concurrente et tumultueuse liaison. La chute du Mur et la « dérive des continents » enregistrée entre Vieux Monde et Amérique n'ont, que partiellement altéré cette relat...
Johnny, sociologie d'un rocker
Un essai original, une forme d'introspection nationale , à partir du " phénomène Hallyday ", saisi dans son émergence et sa durée. Il touchera aussi tous ceux qui - comme l'auteur - ont aimé et/ou chanté Johnny... Aurions-nous tous en nous " quelque chose de Johnny Hallyday " ? Loin d'être ironique, cette question cherche à interroger le lien qui unit le chanteur de Quelque chose de Tennessee à la société française depuis les années 1960. De fait, s'il n'est pas un article d'exportation, et s'il est même souvent considéré comme un importateur de biens culturels anglo-saxons, Johnny est bel et bien ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler une " passion française ". C'est donc à une f...
Comrades and Brothers
Originally published in 1991, this book opens with a theoretical and historical section and analyses the affairs of both the communist party and the trade unions of specific European countries. The first part of the book deals with cases of communist strength, where the communist part had close links with a particular trade union (France, Italy, Spain). The second part looks at cases where social democracy dominated the Left (Belgium, The Netherlands and the UK). Two further essays examine developments in the 1980s in Hungary and Poland.
Confronting America
Throughout the Cold War, the United States encountered unexpected challenges from Italy and France, two countries with the strongest, and determinedly most anti-American, Communist Parties in Western Europe. Based primarily on new evidence from communist archives in France and Italy, as well as research archives in the United States, Alessandro Brogi's original study reveals how the United States was forced by political opposition within these two core Western countries to reassess its own anticommunist strategies, its image, and the general meaning of American liberal capitalist culture and ideology. Brogi shows that the resistance to Americanization was a critical test for the French and I...
Finding Common Ground
Representing the best of cutting-edge scholarship in First World War studies, this anthology demonstrates how conversations among historians across international and cross-disciplinary boundaries enhances our understanding of this global conflict.
Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century France
This book examines the role and place of the intellectual in twentieth-century French society. The essays are for the most part written by eminent French scholars and make available to the English-speaking reader a growing body of research which explores the ethical and historical issues raised by the prominence of the intellectual in politics since the Dreyfus Affair. The volume concludes with an examination of the contrasting and complementary roles of the French and British intellectual.
The Fall of France in the Second World War
This book examines how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within society. It argues that explanations of the fall have usually revolved around the four main themes of decadence, failure, constraint and contingency. It shows that the dominant explanation claimed for many years that the fall was the inevitable consequence of a society grown rotten in the inter-war period. This view has been largely replaced among academic historians by a consensus which distinguishes between the military defeat and the political demise of the Third Republic. It emphasizes the contingent factors that led to the military defeat. At the same time it seeks to understand the constraints within which France’s policy-makers were required to act and the reasons for their policy-making failures in economics, defence and diplomacy.
