L'historiographie du fascisme en France
- Submitting institution
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Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 96219727
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1215/00161071-2689661
- Title of journal
- French Historical Studies
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 469
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 0016-1071
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2689661
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- What was at stake in the controversy about the existence of fascism in France? This article shows that the notion of an ‘Anglo-Saxon’ view of the matter obscures polarization around a transnational opposition between advocates of totalitarianism theory and Marxism, cutting through Anglophone and Francophone scholarship. It demonstrates the roots of the debate in the political struggles of the 1930s. Both sides agreed that resolution of the problem depended on the erroneous conviction that agreement upon the definition of fascism would resolve the controversy. The article argues that a relational alternative to ideal types is more historically productive.