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Auteur(s) : Horn, Gerd-Rainer (1955-....)
Titre(s) : The moment of liberation in Western Europe [Texte imprimé] : power struggles and rebellions, 1943-1948 / Gerd-Rainer Horn
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-262 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. en bas de pages. Bibliogr. p. 255-259. Index
La 4eme de couverture indique : "The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe, 1943-1948,
regards the final two years of World War II and the immediate post-liberation period
as a moment in twentieth century history, when the shape and contours of postwar Western
Europe appeared highly uncertain and various alternatives and conflicting visions
were up for grabs. After close to six years of total war, Nazi terror, and brutal
occupation policies, a growing number of Europeans were no longer content solely to
fight for national liberation from fascist control. Having staked their lives in military
and civilian resistance to Nazism and Italian fascism across the continent, surviving
activists were aiming to ensure that such a political and social catastrophe would
never befall Europe again. 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."
Sujet(s) : Reconstruction d'après-guerre (2e guerre mondiale) -- Europe de l'Ouest
Politique et gouvernement -- Europe de l'Ouest -- 1945-1989
Conditions sociales -- Europe de l'Ouest -- 1945-1970
Europe de l'Ouest -- 1945-1970
Indice(s) Dewey :
940.55 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Europe - 1945-1999
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199587919 (rel). - ISBN 0199587914 (rel)
EAN 9780199587919
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46522315x
Notice n° :
FRBNF46522315
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