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Rural Communism in France, 1920-1939
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Communism has been an enduring presence on the
French political scene for most of this century.
It remains so in areas of the countryside,
despite its collapse in the Soviet Union and in
most of France's urban areas. Shifting the
emphasis away from the often-studied
relationship between communism and the working
class, Laird Boswell proposes a new
interpretation of the French Communist Party's
success and illuminates rural social and
political behavior during a critical period
of economic crisis. Drawing on extensive
interviews with thirty- four surviving communist
militants and an analysis of voter behavior,
this book focuses on the Party's persistent
strength during the interwar period in such
rural strongholds as the Limousin and the
Dordogne. Boswell shows how communism introduced
modern politics in isolated rural communities,
revived networks of village sociability and
culture, and responded to the state's inability
to cope with the massive upheaval brought about
by the gradual disappearance of peasant society.
Boswell challenges standard interpretations that
attribute Party success in rural areas to leftist
voting traditions, red republicanism, or family
structures. By showing how French peasants used
the political arena to defend their interests,
his book provides significant insights on the
nature of European communism and on the
transformation of the French countryside in the
twentieth century.
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