Communist Veterans and Paramilitarism in 1920s France: The<i>Association républicaine des anciens combattants</i>

Millington, Chris

doi:10.1080/17526272.2015.1108583

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“…Many veterans' movements, like the AEC, were officially apolitical. One of the principal movements, the Union Nationale des Veterans], however, was communist in outlook (Millington, 2015). There was, then, no single, unified veteran movement, party, or even vision which could be deemed to reflect all veterans' interests.…”

Section: The War Generation and Generation Wars: French Veterans And mentioning

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The War Generation and Generation Wars: French Veterans and the Association des Écrivains Combattants, 1919–1945

Hurcombe¹

2018

Journal of War & Culture Studies

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This article examines the ways in which veteran writers, notably through the activities and publications of the Association des Écrivians Combattants [Association of Combatant Writers], were essential to the conscious elaboration of a generational identity amongst French veterans in the interwar years. In particular, it explores how the AEC constructed the war generation in France, examining how its successes, limitations, and legacy beyond the First World War illustrate the ambiguities surrounding the notion of generation. It shows how the AEC mobilized the memory of the war through a range of commemorative textual practices centring on the figure of the dead combatant author in order to assert the rights, interest, and moral authority of French veterans in a society that the latter now sought to 'correct' through the example of their generation's sacrifice. It will also explore the political choices this led AEC members to take, focusing in particular on the ambiguous relationship veterans entertained with the French Republic. Finally, it places veterans' struggle within a pattern of generational politics and conflict that characterizes twentieth-century France and which would see the veteran of World War One supplanted by another generation of veterans: those who had resisted Nazi occupation and collaboration during World War Two.

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Section: The War Generation and Generation Wars: French Veterans And mentioning

confidence: 99%

The War Generation and Generation Wars: French Veterans and the Association des Écrivains Combattants, 1919–1945

Hurcombe¹

2018

Journal of War & Culture Studies

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Veterans and Fascism: Consolidation and European Expansion, 1925–1929

Alcalde

2017

War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe

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War veterans as transnational actors: politics, alliances and networks in the interwar period

Alcalde

2018

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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Communist Veterans and Paramilitarism in 1920s France: TheAssociation républicaine des anciens combattants

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

The War Generation and Generation Wars: French Veterans and the Association des Écrivains Combattants, 1919–1945

The War Generation and Generation Wars: French Veterans and the Association des Écrivains Combattants, 1919–1945

Veterans and Fascism: Consolidation and European Expansion, 1925–1929

War veterans as transnational actors: politics, alliances and networks in the interwar period

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