The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe Power Struggles and Rebellions, 1943-1948
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Summary
In the closing moments of World War II, hundreds of thousands of antifascist activists had begun to identify with the famous quote penned by the exiled German social theorists, Max Horkheimer, who had boldly proclaimed in early September 1939: 'Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.' The economic and political elites in prewar societies were increasingly regarded as co-responsible for war, fascism, and occupation policies, from which many had benefited significantly and often enthusiastically. There were extensive popular social movements at work in almost every single state which aimed to construct postwar societies in which grassroots democracy and the free association of rank-and-file activists would replace the profit principle and the top-down Jacobin orientation by traditional elites. This study for the first time reconstructs the parameters of this contest over the shape of postwar Western Europe from a consistently transnational perspective.
Author Biography
Gerd-Rainer Horn, Professor of History, Le Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po
Gerd-Rainer Horn is Professor of History at Sciences Po, Paris, France, since 2013. He has previously taught at Western Oregon University, the University of Huddersfield, and the University of Warwick. His area of research expertise is the twentieth century history of transnational social movements in continental Western Europe.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Prologue
1. Rebellion in the South: Liberation in France
2. The Wind from the North: Liberation in Italy
3. Who is the Governmenta We are the Government! : Liberation at the Point of Production
4. Honni Soit Qui Mal Y Pense: The Politics of the Press in Post-Liberation Europe
5. Last Stands: Echoes of the Maquis
Conclusion
Bibliographic Essay
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