We Are No Longer in France - (Studies in Imperialism) by Allison Drew (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria's communist movement<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria's communist movement. Meticulously researched - and the only English-language book on the Parti Communiste Algérien - it explores the Party's complex relationship with Algerian nationalism. Algeria's de facto colonial relationship with France was critical. During international crises, such as the Popular Front and Second World War years, the PCA remained close to its French counterpart, but from the late 1940s, as the national liberation struggle intensified, the PCA's concern with political and social justice attracted growing numbers of Muslims alienated by the nationalist movement's factionalism. When the Front de Libération Nationale launched armed struggle in November 1954, the PCA faced a classic socialist dilemma - organisational independence or dissolution and merger into the FLN. Despite FLN pressure, the PCA maintained its organisational autonomy, while participating fully in the war of independence. Imbued with a Cold War ideology, the French state cracked down on Algeria's Communists. Facing the state's wrath, they refused to disband. Algerian independence saw two socialist visions: the PCA's incorporated political pluralism and class struggle, and the FLN's one-party socialist state. The PCA's hopes for political pluralism were shattered when it was banned by the one-party state in November 1962. <br /> <br /> This book is of particular interest to students and scholars of Algerian history, French colonial history and communist history.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This book recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria's communist movement. Meticulously researched - and the only English-language book on the Parti Communiste Algérien - it explores the Party's complex relationship with Algerian nationalism. Algeria's de facto colonial relationship with France was critical. During international crises, such as the Popular Front and Second World War years, the PCA remained close to its French counterpart, but from the late 1940s, as the national liberation struggle intensified, the PCA's concern with political and social justice attracted growing numbers of Muslims alienated by the nationalist movement's factionalism. When the Front de Libération Nationale launched armed struggle in November 1954, the PCA faced a classic socialist dilemma - organisational independence or dissolution and merger into the FLN. Despite FLN pressure, the PCA maintained its organisational autonomy, while participating fully in the war of independence. Imbued with a Cold War ideology, the French state cracked down on Algeria's Communists. Facing the state's wrath, they refused to disband. Algerian independence saw two socialist visions: the PCA's incorporated political pluralism and class struggle, and the FLN's one-party socialist state. The PCA's hopes for political pluralism were shattered when it was banned by the one-party state in November 1962. This book is of particular interest to students and scholars of Algerian history, French colonial history and communist history.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>Neville Alexander and Henri Alleg would be pleased and proud to read this superbly researched, carefully documented, absolutely fair-minded and accurate account. It is well structured, with a useful list of abbreviations, tables and maps. If there is an archive Professor Drew has not consulted, a<br>surviving participant whom she did not interview, a relevant book or article and memoir she did not consult, I am unaware of it. - David L. Schalk, Science and society Vol. 80, No. 3, July 2016? <br><p></p><br>Drew has told the story of communist political action in Algeria in great detail, with attention to numerous individuals. At times, the number of names in play becomes overwhelming and the description of congress after congress seems excessive. But the tale is worth telling, and this kind of<br>careful narrative is an essential building block for any analysis of the range of possibilities that opened and shut during the years of struggle over what kind of polity in what kind of wider political configuration ? whether communist or imperial, national or federal - Algeria could be. In the<br>end, Drew doesn't explicitly answer the question of what the relationship of communism and nationalism actually was. But that question has no single answer, and she has given us a rich narrative of a struggle whose complexity is well worth pondering. - Frederick Cooper, Department of History, New<br>York University, Canadian Journal Of African Studies/La Revue Canadienne Des Études Africaines, July 2016 <br><p></p><br>We Are No Longer in France is a concisely written, empirically dense, and thought-provoking case study which illuminates the profound impact of the conflict between nationalism and internationalism on global anti-colonial communism in the twentieth century. [EL] Its language is precise, its<br>citations are meticulous, and its bibliography is extensive, ensuring its place as a key reference work that will be useful to a wide range of scholars, as well as to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of colonial, imperial, and European political history. - Michelle Rose Mann, Washington<br>State University, H-France, Vol. 18 (2018) <br><p></p><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br>Allison Drew is Professor of Politics at the University of York<br>
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