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HIST 276: France Since 1871

Lecture 07 - Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left. The history of socialism in France can be understood in terms of the competition between revolutionary socialists and reform socialists. The former advocated abandoning electoral politics, while the latter attempted to improve conditions for workers by means of reforms within the political system. These two attitudes found figureheads in Jules Guesdes and Paul Brousse, respectively. Reform socialists and revolutionary socialists are united under the leadership of Jean Jaures, whose organizing efforts define and influence French socialism well into the twentieth century. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 07 - Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. The Lure of Revolutionary Socialism: Jules Guesde, the Red Pope
[00:17:09] 2. The Challenge of Reform Socialism: Brousse and the "Possibilists"
[00:22:20] 3. The Development of Local Industrial Centers
[00:30:18] 4. The Heroic Age of Syndicalism: The Dream of Fernand Pelloutier
[00:38:32] 5. Jean Jaures and the Unification of the Socialist Party

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Lecture 7 - Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left
Instructor: Professor John Merriman. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - The Paris Commune and Its Legacy
Lecture 03 - Centralized State and Republic
Lecture 04 - A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity
Lecture 05 - The Waning of Religious Authority
Lecture 06 - Workshop and Factory
Lecture 07 - Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left
Lecture 08 - Dynamite Club: The Anarchists
Lecture 09 - General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus
Lecture 10 - Cafes and the Culture of Drink
Lecture 11 - Paris and the Belle Epoque
Lecture 12 - French Imperialism (Guest Lecture by Charles Keith)
Lecture 13 - The Origins of World War I
Lecture 14 - Trench Warfare
Lecture 15 - The Home Front
Lecture 16 - The Great War, Grief, and Memory (Guest Lecture by Bruno Cabanes)
Lecture 17 - The Popular Front
Lecture 18 - The Dark Years: Vichy France
Lecture 19 - Resistance
Lecture 20 - Battles For and Against Americanization
Lecture 21 - Vietnam and Algeria
Lecture 22 - Charles De Gaulle
Lecture 23 - May 1968
Lecture 24 - Immigration