"Lec 17 - The Popular Front" France Since 1871 (HIST 276) A plethora of Far Right and fascist organizations emerged in the wake of World War I. Economic depression, nationalism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia all played a part in this upsurge. On the left, the tension between communist revolutionaries and socialist reformers was reconciled, for a time, in the Popular Front government of Leon Blum. While the Popular Front would eventually fall, it pioneered many of the reforms and progressive measures that French workers enjoy today. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Rise of the Right in Interwar France 11:54 - Chapter 2. Xenophobia and Anti-Semitism in France 16:17 - Chapter 3. The Stavisky Affair 28:22 - Chapter 4. The Reassertion of the Republic: The Victory of the Popular Front and Leon Blum 41:19 - Chapter 5. Unraveling the Popular Front: The Depression and the Spanish Civil War Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Fall 2007.
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Lec 1 - Introduction - France Since 1871
Lec 2 - The Paris Commune and Its Legacy
Lec 3 - Centralized State and Republic
Lec 4 - A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity
Lec 6 - The Waning of Religious Authority
Lec 7 - Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left
Lec 8 - Dynamite Club: The Anarchists
Lec 9 - General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus
Lec 10 - Cafés and the Culture of Drink
Lec 11 - Paris and the Belle Époque
Lec 12 - French Imperialism (Guest Lecture by Charles Keith)
Lec 13 - The Origins of World War I
Lec 16 - The Great War, Grief, and Memory (Guest Lecture by Bruno Cabanes)
Lec 18 - The Dark Years: Vichy France