Product Description: During the interwar years France experienced severe political polarization. At the time many observers, particularly on the left, feared that the French right had embraced fascism, generating a fierce debate that has engaged scholars for decades, but has also obscured critical changes in French society and culture during the 1920s and 1930s...read more

Product Description: The Greenshirts, a far-right peasant movement in 1930s France, wanted to transform the Republic into an authoritatian, agrarian state. They succeeded only in mounting sporadic local actions, but they permitted a fresh look at the strengths and weaknesses of fascism in French rural Society, and at the enduring French perception of themselves as a peasant nation...read more