French agricultural workers and the Popular Front /
John Bulaitis.
New York :
In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) :
illustrations, map
International library of historical studies ;
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index.
The legacy of pre-1914 French socialism -- Communist agrarianism, 1921-28 -- 'Class against class' in the countryside, 1928-34 -- Communists and the agricultural labour force, 1933-45 -- Rebellion in the fields, 1936-37 -- Characteristics of the farm strikes -- The farm strikes and the problem of 'peasant unity'.
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The French Communist Party has traditionally been identified with the urban working class but paradoxically its position as France's main left-wing party was dependent upon support from the countryside. "Communism in Rural France" explores for the first time the party's complex and often misunderstood relationship with agricultural labourers. During 1936 and 1937 a bitter struggle between agricultural workers and farmers swept through parts of the French countryside. Coinciding with the urban 'social explosion' which followed the victory of the Popular Front government, the strikes, f.
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