Mobilizing Youth: Communists and Catholics in Interwar France

Whitney's book - multidimensional, fair-minded, neither pious nor patronizing - cites a considerable amount of relatively unknown and unexplored sources while providing a rich amount of new information about young women who, only a few decades ago, seemed mortal enemies divided by life and deat...

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Published in:The Catholic historical review 2011, Vol.97 (3), p.602-603
Main Author: Hellman, John W.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Autobiographies
Late Modern European
Young adults
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Summary:Whitney's book - multidimensional, fair-minded, neither pious nor patronizing - cites a considerable amount of relatively unknown and unexplored sources while providing a rich amount of new information about young women who, only a few decades ago, seemed mortal enemies divided by life and death issues. Whitney makes resourceful use of relatively unknown autobiographies by communists (e.g., of the tough Stalinist Jeannette Thorez-Vermeersch [pp. 75-78]) and by Catholics (e.g., of the budding communitarian theologian Yves Congar [pp. 26-27]), providing a number of telling, vivid illustrations and anecdotes.
ISSN:0008-8080
1534-0708
1534-0708
DOI:10.1353/cat.2011.0113