Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France
by Zeev Sternhell
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"Few books on European history in recent memory have caused such controversy and commotion," wrote Robert Wohl in 1991 in a major review of Neither Right nor Left. Listed by Le Monde as one of the forty most important books published in France during the 1980s, this explosive work asserts that fascism was an important part of the mainstream of European history, not just a temporary development in Germany and Italy but a significant aspect of French culture as well. Neither right nor left, show more fascism united antibourgeois, antiliberal nationalism, and revolutionary syndicalist thought, each of which joined in reflecting the political culture inherited from eighteenth-century France. From the first, Sternhell's argument generated strong feelings among people who wished to forget the Vichy years, and his themes drew enormous public attention in 1994, as Paul Touvier was condemned for crimes against humanity and a new biography probed President Mitterand's Vichy connections. The author's new preface speaks to the debates of 1994 and reinforces the necessity of acknowledging the past, as President Chirac has recently done on France's behalf. show lessTags
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Zeev Sternhell is Leon Blum Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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- Canonical title*
- Ni droite ni gauche. L'idéologie fasciste en France
- Original title
- Ni droite ni gauche. L'idéologie fasciste en France
- Alternate titles*
- Ni droite ni gauche. L'idéologie fasciste en France. La France, entre nationalisme et fascisme
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- 1983 (1e édition originale française ∙ Seuil) (1e édition originale française ∙ Seuil); 1987 (Nouvelle édition refondue et augmentée française ∙ Historiques ∙ Complexe) (Nouvelle édition refondue et augmentée française ∙ Historiques ∙ Complexe); 2000 (3e édition française refondue et augmentée d'un essai inédit, Fayard) (3e édition française refondue et augmentée d'un essai inédit, Fayard); 2012 (4e édition française augmentée, Folio histoire, Gallimard) (4e édition française augmentée, Folio histoire, Gallimard)
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- Français
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