"Few books on European history in recent memory have caused such
controversy and commotion", wrote Robert Wohl in 1991 in a major
review of Neither Right nor Left. Listed by Le Monde as one of the
forty most important books published in France during the 1980s,
this explosive work asserts that fascism was an important part of
the mainstream of European history, not just a temporary
development in Germany and Italy but a significant aspect of French
culture as well. Neither right nor left, fascism united
antibourgeois, antiliberal nationalism and revolutionary
syndicalist thought, each of which joined in rejecting the
political culture inherited from eighteenth-century France. From
the first, Sternhell's argument generated strong feelings among
people who wished to forget the Vichy years, and his themes drew
enormous public attention in 1994, as Paul Touvier was condemned
for crimes against humanity and a new biography probed President
Mitterand's Vichy connections. The author's new preface to the
paperback edition of Neither Right nor Left speaks to the debates
of 1994 and reinforces the necessity of acknowledging the past, as
President Chirac has recently done on France's behalf.
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