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x, 365 pages : 22 cm, Ch. 2 (p. 31-48), \"The Context of Extremist Politics: Les extremes se touchent\", traces the development of the anarchist movement in the 1880s-90s and the place of antisemitism within it. The movement attracted antisemitic elements such as Boulangism, an extreme anti-republican movement, and antisemitic activists like Drumont and the Marquis de Morès. Maurice Barrès is cited as an example of an intellectual who moved from Boulangism to anarchism and finally to anti-Dreyfusism. Points out the link between anarchist and antisemitic violence in the early 1890s, an indication of how religious antisemitism was invigorated by new economic and class antagonism. However, suggests that the weakness of anarchist antisemitism is illustrated by the large number of Jewish anarchists in the movement. Contends that antisemitism was not a central issue in the movement. The Dreyfus Affair made antisemitism practically a monopoly of the Right, A Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of California, Berkeley), Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-356) and index, Ch. 2 (p. 31-48), \"The Context of Extremist Politics: Les extremes se touchent\", traces t

Author
Sonn, Richard David, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Published
1989
Language
EN
ISBN
9780803241756
Subjects
Political Science, Social Science, History

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