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A HISTORY OF THE FRENCH ANARCHIST MOVEMENT, 1917 to 1945

Price: £15.00
ISBN 13: 
978 1904859826
Library of Congress Control No.: 
2008927322
Number of pages: 
362
First published: 
2002
This edition: 
2009
Blurb: 

David Berry's study is the first English-language evaluation of the development and lessons of the French anarchist movement between the wars. Using an impressive array of archival sources and personal interviews, Berry's original research explores the debates and growing pains of a massive, working-class, revolutionary movement facing great obstacles and uncertainty. Focusing on the organized wings of the movement -- the anarcho-communist and syndicalist groups -- it offers a ringside seat to the legacy of the First International, the upheaval of the Russian Revolution and subsequent Bolshevik treachery, and the fight against fascism. Includes an introduction from archivist and historian Barry Pateman.

Contents: 

Dedication

Acknowledgements
List of Initials
List of Tables
Introduction -- Barry Pateman, 2008
Preface to the AK Press edition
Introduction
1. The Context: Anarchism in France from the 1840s to 1917

PART I: The Aftermath of War and the Challenge of Bolshevism, 1917--1924

2. The New Dawn in the East
3. Sovietism as Council Anarchism
4. The Mainstream: From Revision to Reaffirmation of Anarchism
5. On the Margins: The Temps nouveaux Group and the Individualists
6. The Anarchists and the Revolutionary Syndicalist Movement
7. The Crisis of Anarchism, 1924--34

PART II: Antifascism, the Spanish Revolution and War, 1934--1945

8. Popular Front or Revolutionary Front?: Anarchist Antifascism
9. An Anarchist Front for Spain: the Anarcho-Syndicalist Committee
10. The Union Anarchiste and Antifascist Solidarity
11. Schism in the Anarchist Movement: the CGTSR-FAF
12. Volunteers in Spain, 1936--39
13. Antimilitarism, Resistance and Collaboration
Conclusion: Mobilization, Constituency and Ideology
Selected Bibliography: Anarchist movement publications and other primary sources
Index

Biographical note(s): 

Dave Berry has been active on the Left in one way or another for over 30 years, most recently in the local branch of his union. He teaches French and politics at Loughborough University (UK). A founding member of the Anarchist Studies Network, he is also reviews editor of the journal Anarchist Studies.

Quotes about: 

Berry has done an amazing job of poring through the speeches, the newspapers, the reports of meetings of all the various strands of the anarchist movement to develop a coherent story of changing anarchist ideology in the 1920s and 1930s ... -- H-France

We should applaud a study which has no equivalent in French and which does not fear bringing to light the hesitations and the U-turns, but also the lucidity and the courage of many militants. -- Refractions