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Zusammenfassung This collection of essays focuses specifically on France and Spain as the only two countries where Popular Front coalitions came to power in the 1930s. The French and Spanish Popular Fronts emerge here as more than elite political partnerships - they were movements of the masses in search of social! cultural and educational change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction Martin S. Alexander and Helen Graham; 2. The formation of the French Popular Front, 1934-6 Joel Colton; 3. The origins and nature of the Spanish Popular Front Santos Juliá; 4. The French Radicals, Spain and the emergence of appeasement H. Haywood Hunt; 5. The Spanish army and the Popular Front Michael Alpert; 6. Soldiers and socialists: the French officers corps and leftist government, 1935-7 Martin S. Alexander; 7. The Spanish Church and the Popular Front: the experience of Salamanca province Mary Vincent; 8. 'La main tendue': the French Communist Party and the Catholic Church, 1935-7 James Steel; 9. Trotsky and left-wing critics of the Popular Front Tom Kemp; 10. The development of marxist theory in Spain and the Frente Popular Paul Haywood; 11. The other Popular Front: French anarchism and the Front Révolutionnaire David Berry; 12. The French Popular Front and the politics of Jacques Doriot Alan Forrest; 13. The Blum government, the Conseil National Economique and economic policy Adrian Rossiter; 14. Social and economic policies of the Spanish left in theory and in practice José Manuel Macarro Vera; 15. Women, men and the 1936 strikes in France Siân Reynolds; 16. From clientelism to communism: the Marseille working class and the Popular Front David A. L. Levy; 17. A reinterpretation of the Spanish Popular Front: the case of Asturias Adrian Shubert; 18. Le temps des loisirs: popular tourism and mass leisure in the vision of the Front Populaire Julian Jackson; 19. The educational and cultural policy of the Popular Front government in Spain, 1936-9 Christopher Cobb; 20. French intellectual groups and the Popular Front: traditional and innovative uses of the media Martin Stanton; Index....
