The Popular Front in Europe

Out of the social and economic turmoil of Europe in the 1930s, the Popular Front emerged as the spearhead of the left's bid to stop fascism in its tracks. Fifty years on from the birth of the Popular Front this edited collection assesses the impact of the idea of bourgeois-proletarian alliance on the European left as a whole. It also examines the fate of the Popular Front governments, both in France, which remained nominally 'at peace', and in Spain, where the bitter strife over social and economic reform erupted into open civil war.

Inhalt
Notes on the Contributors - The Popular Front and the Struggle against Fascism; H.Graham and P.Preston - The Object Lesson: the Division of the German Left and the Triumph of National Socialism; S.Salter - The Austrian Left and the Popular Front; M.Kitchen - The French Popular Front, 1936-37; D.A.L.Levy - The Creation of the Popular Front in Spain; P.Preston - The Spanish Popular Front and the Civil War; H.Graham - Togliatti, Italian Communism and the Popular Front; D.Sassoon - The Soviet Union, the Comintern and the Demise of the Popular Front, 1936-39; J.Haslam - Index