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In the 1930s, activists with France’s Popular Front mobilized culture against fascism. Examining music, theater, film, art, and festivals in Paris, Marseille, and Rouen, this book analyzes approaches to antifascism and how they varied and interacted across different regions and left-wing traditions.
By combining revolutionary, republican, and working-class heritage, antifascists aimed to foster unifying identities to mobilize the French people. Simultaneously, the distinct outlooks of Communists, Radicals, and Socialists, in addition to the different visions among national figures in Paris and local activists, produced divergent understandings of antifascist culture, ultimately weakening the coalition. This study explains the political, social, and cultural context of the 1930s that generated these movements to break down barriers between ordinary citizens and French culture. It also explores how antifascists constructed the “French people,” an ambiguous concept that carried both social and civic connotations.
Aimed at a scholarly audience, this volume engages with historians of modern France and the interwar period in Europe, and will interest researchers in antifascist and fascist studies, as well as the fields of cultural politics, republicanism, communism, socialism, and national and regional identity.
Title: The People, the Workers, and the Citizens
Format: Hardback Book
Release Date: 06 Jan 2026
Type: Mattie Fitch
Sku: 3527410
Catalogue No: 9781032739045
Category: History
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