Robert O. Paxton

Uncompromising, often startling, meticulously documentedthis book is an account of the government, and the governed, of colaborationist France. Basing his work on captured German archives and contemporary materials rather than on self-serving postwar memoirs or war-trial testimony, Professor Paxton maps out the complex nature of the ill-famed Vichy government, showing that it in fact enjoyed mass participation. The majority of the Frenchmen in 1940 feared social disorder as the worse imaginable evil and rallied to support the State, thereby bringing about the betrayal of the Nation as a whole.

3 septembre 1939 : Londres et Paris élaborent une stratégie de blocus visant à étouffer l’économie du Reich au cours d’une guerre d’usure. 22 juin 1940 : signature de l’armistice franco-allemand. Chu

Based on a lifetimes worth of research, esteemed historian Robert Paxton explores what fascism is and how it has come to have a lasting and continued impact on our history. In the concluding section of his authoritative book, The Anatomy of Fascism,Paxton makes the convincing and radical case that existing definitions of the popular, nationalist, and conservative political view are lacking, and offers up his own brilliant explicationdrawn from concrete historical actionsthus transforming our understanding of this dangerous ideology and of why it takes hold when and where it does. A Vintage Shorts Selection. An ebook short.

Fascism was the major political invention of the twentieth century and the source of much of its pain. How can we try to comprehend its allure and its horror? Is it a philosophy, a movement, an aesthetic experience? What makes states and nations become fascist?Acclaimed historian Robert O. Paxton shows that in order to understand fascism we must look at it in action - at what it did, as much as what it said it was about. He explores its falsehoods and common threads; the social and political base that allowed it to prosper; its leaders and internal struggles; how it manifested itself differently in each country - France, Britain, the low countries, Eastern Europe, even Latin America as well as Italy and Germany; how fascists viewed the Holocaust; and, finally, whether fascism is still possible in todays world.Offering a bold new interpretation of the fascist phenomenon, this groundbreaking book will overturn our understanding of twentieth-century history.

¿Qué es fascismo? ¿Cómo podemos definirlo y comprenderlo? ¿Es una filosofía política, un movimiento político, una forma de vida? ¿Por qué los estados y las naciones se hacen fascistas? El fascismo fue la innovacion politica mas importante del siglo XX y la fuente de muchos de sus padecimientos. Este libro muestra que no podemos intentar entender el fascismo pretendiendo definirlo en abstracto, sino que debemos examinarlo en accion: en lo que hizo, asi como en lo que dijo que se proponia. Paxton aborda, en una esplendida narracion analitica, la cuestion mas importante del fascismo, a la que no se ha dado respuesta hasta hoy: ¿Por que Italia y Alemania cultivaron movimientos fascistas que se convirtieron en gobiernos elegidos, mientras que Francia y otros paises no? En la busqueda de la solucion, Paxton explora el fascismo en toda su complejidad. Empieza aclarando que es: las falsedades y los hilos comunes; la base social y politica que le permitio prosperar; sus dirigentes y luchas internas; como se manifesto de una forma distinta en cada pais: Francia, Inglaterra, los Paises Bajos, la Europa oriental, incluso Latinoamerica, ademas de Italia y Alemania; y como enfocaron los fascistas el Holocausto. Se plantea, por ultimo, una cuestion candente: ¿Es posible en la actualidad el fascismo?