From Revolutionary Theater to Reactionary Litanies - Gustave Herve (1871-1944) at the Extremes of the French Third Republic (Hardcover, New edition)

Gustave Herve (1871-1944) seemed to have traditional Breton roots and a typical republican education. As a young socialist journalist and professor, he gained notoriety following a 1901 article which appeared to plant the tricolor in a dung pile. When French socialists unified in 1905, the Herveistes were an influential minority. The antimilitarist movement called Herveism gradually emerged as a quixotic crusade to unite revolutionaries against war and for socialism. Herve soon founded a weekly newspaper, La Guerre Sociale. Over the next six years, press campaigns, trials, prison, demonstrations, strikes, and conspiratorial organizations maintained Herve's profile and sold newspapers. Ironically, Herve advertised conspiracies, which suggests revolutionary theater more than practical politics. Among Herve's rivals, such theatrics often generated resentment. While Herve's movement succeeded as a media experience, his leftist competitors became jealous and skeptical. As revolutionary theater Herveism might have been entertaining, but the actors and some of the audience often confused revolutionary art with political reality. By 1911 the ingenuous Herve felt betrayed. His failure to unite revolutionaries began an evolution toward the nation and its traditional Catholic faith. Besides the international situation, one crucial determinant in Herve's evolution toward French national socialism sympathetic to fascism involved ongoing rivalries within the French Left. Herve's marginal interwar national socialist parties sought to employ patriotism and religion to solve French problems. By 1935 he attempted to draft Petain to lead an authoritarian republic. Gradually losing hope in Petain after the fall of France, the aging Herve put his faith in Christian socialism.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Modern European History, 71
Release date:	July 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Michael B Loughlin
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 68mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	880
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-3100-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-3100-5
Barcode:	9781433131004

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