LEADER 04857nam 22007333 450 001 9911009253003321 005 20240623090317.0 010 $a0-520-37846-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520378469 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31326927 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31326927 035 $a(CKB)32321378800041 035 $a(DE-B1597)694932 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520378469 035 $a(OCoLC)1443085690 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932321378800041 100 $a20240623d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Rise of the Paris Red Belt 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2018. 210 4$dİ1990. 215 $a1 online resource (269 pages) 311 08$a0-520-41516-7 311 08$a0-520-30308-3 327 $aCover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: The Growthof Working-Class Suburbia -- 1. The Suburbanization of the Paris Region -- 2. The Urbanization of Bobigny -- 3. The People of Bobigny -- Part Two: The Origins of Suburban Communism -- 4. Electoral Politics in Bobigny -- 5. The Communist Municipality of Bobigny -- 6. Culture, Politics, and Community in Communist Bobigny -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Jean-Marie Clamamus, Bobigny's Red Patriarch -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aFrom 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of its cultural identity as well. Focusing on the northeastern suburb of Bobigny, Tyler Stovall explores the nature of working-class life and politicization as he skillfully documents how this unique region and political culture came into being. The Rise of the Paris Red Belt reveals that the very process of urban development in metropolitan Paris and the suburbs provided the most important opportunities for the local establishment of Communist influence.   The rapid increase in Paris' suburban population during the early twentieth century outstripped the development of the local urban infrastructure. Consequently, many of these suburbs, often represented to their new residents as charming country villages, soon degenerated into suburban slums. Stovall argues that Communists forged a powerful political block by mobilizing the disillusionment and by improving some of the worst aspects of suburban life.   As a social history of twentieth-century France, The Rise of the Paris Red Belt calls into question traditional assumptions about the history of both French Communism and the French working-class. It suggests that those interested in working-class politics should consider the significance of residential and consumer issues as well as those relating to the workplace. It also suggests that urban history and urban development should not be considered autonomous phenomena, but rather expressions of class relations. The Rise of the Paris Red Belt brings to life a world whose citizens, though often overlooked, are nonetheless the history of modern France.  This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates 330 8 $aUniversity of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990. 606 $aHISTORY / Europe / General$2bisacsh 610 $a20th century paris. 610 $abobigny government. 610 $abobigny politics. 610 $abobigny. 610 $aclass relations in paris. 610 $acultural identity of french working class. 610 $afrench communism. 610 $afrench labor issues. 610 $afrench red belt. 610 $afrench working class politics. 610 $afrench working class. 610 $ahistory of modern france. 610 $amodern france. 610 $aparis government. 610 $aparis politics. 610 $aparis urban history. 610 $aparisian slums. 610 $asocial history of france. 610 $asuburban slums of paris. 610 $aurban development in paris. 610 $aworking class paris. 615 7$aHISTORY / Europe / General. 676 $a306.2/0944/361 700 $aStovall$b Tyler$01300898 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911009253003321 996 $aThe Rise of the Paris Red Belt$94394810 997 $aUNINA