Catholics on the barricades :: Poland, France, and "revolution", 1939-1956 /

This book tells a sweeping story of how Catholics from France and Poland wrestled throughout the first half of the twentieth century with a series of earth-shattering challenges to their worldview: the Industrial Revolution, the displacement of dynastic empires by democratic republics, republicanism...

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1. Verfasser: Kosicki, Piotr H., 1983- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]
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Zusammenfassung:This book tells a sweeping story of how Catholics from France and Poland wrestled throughout the first half of the twentieth century with a series of earth-shattering challenges to their worldview: the Industrial Revolution, the displacement of dynastic empires by democratic republics, republicanism's subsequent collapse between the world wars, occupation and genocide by Nazi Germany, and the birth and expansion of the Soviet Union and its Communist proxy regimes. Faced with the ascendancy of both nationalism and Marxism across Europe, Catholic intellectuals found common ground in the pursuit of a just society on earth. Catholics on the Barricades reconstructs the projects forged across multiple generations, spanning from the 1890s through the 1950s. Declaring Catholic "revolution," France's and Poland's Catholic intellectuals ended up serving twin evils: first exclusionary (or integral) nationalism, and then Stalinism as well. To explain this paradox, Catholics on the Barricades offers a conceptual history of "revolution." After World War II, anti-fascist bona fides led these intellectuals to give the benefit of the doubt to Communist regimes in Eastern Europe - if not actively involve themselves in those regimes' construction. In addition to peace and personhood, French and Polish Catholics were united by a shared fear of Germany. Their anti-Germanism built on, and preserved, long-standing anti-Semitism. Catholic "revolution," then, was poisoned from the outset. And yet, its legacy ultimately inspired a turn to dialogue and solidarity, which - fleeting though it has proven to be - helped to bring down the Iron Curtain.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxviii, 391 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780300231489
0300231482

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