The moment of liberation in Western Europe power struggles and rebellions, 1943-1948 Horn, Gerd-Rainer creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk 2020 2020 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) : illustrations, maps The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe, 1943-1948, regards the final two years of World War II and the immediate post-liberation period as a moment in twentieth century history, when the shape and contours of postwar Western Europe appeared highly uncertain and various alternatives and conflicting visions were up for grabs. After close to six years of total war, Nazi terror, and brutal occupation policies, a growing number of Europeans were no longercontent solely to fight for national liberation from fascist control. Having staked their lives in military and civilian resistance to Nazism and Italian fascism across the continent, surviving activists were aiming to ensure that such a political and social catastrophe would never befall Europe again. In the closing moments of World War II, hundreds of thousands of antifascist activists had begun to identify with the famous quote penned by the exiled German social theorists, Max Horkheimer, who had boldly proclaimed in early September 1939: 'Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.' The economic and political elites in prewar societies were increasingly regarded as co-responsible for war, fascism, and occupation policies, from which many hadbenefited significantly and often enthusiastically. There were extensive popular social movements at work in almost every single state which aimed to construct postwar societies in which grassroots democracy and the free association of rank-and-file activists would replace the profit principle and thetop-down Jacobin orientation by traditional elites. This study for the first time reconstructs the parameters of this contest over the shape of postwar Western Europe from a consistently transnational perspective Rebellion in the South: liberation in France -- The wind from the North: liberation in Italy -- 'Who is the government? We are the government!': Liberation at the point of production -- Honni soit qui mal y pense: the politics of the press in post-liberation Europe -- Last stands: echoes of the Maquis Gerd-Rainer Horn Includes bibliographical references and index ew----- e------ Reconstruction (1939-1951) Europe, Western Protest movements Europe, Western History 20th century Europe Politics and government 1945- Europe Social conditions 20th century Reconstruction, 1939-1951 Europe de l'Ouest Contestation Europe de l'Ouest Histoire 20e siècle Europe Politique et gouvernement 1945- Revolutionary HISTORY 20th Century Modern Colonialism & Post-Colonialism POLITICAL SCIENCE Politics and government Protest movements Reconstruction (1939-1951) Social conditions Europe Western Europe Since 1900 fast D1051 .H67 2020 940.55/4 Moment of liberation in Western Europe Horn, Gerd-Rainer. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020 First edition. (OCoLC)1117643279 9780192582867 0192582860 9780192582874 0192582879 9780191880001 0191880000 9780199587919 0199587914 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/36702 YDX 200317 20260319182132.9 in00005718555 eng