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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Decline and Fall -- CHAPTER TWO. In the Light of Experience -- CHAPTER THREE. Resistance and Revenge -- CHAPTER FOUR. What Is Political Justice? -- CHAPTER FIVE. Show Trials -- CHAPTER SIX. The Blind Force of History -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Today Things Are Clear -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Sacrifices of the Russian People -- CHAPTER NINE. About the East We Can Do Nothing -- CHAPTER TEN. America Has Gone Mad -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. We Must Not Disillusion the Workers -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Liberalism, There Is the Enemy -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Gesia Dei per Francos -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Europe and the French Intellectuals -- Conclusion: Goodbye to All That? -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- 1. The Left in France -- 2. The French Labour Movement in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. The French Socialist Party 1920-1936 -- 4. French Marxism 1945-1975 -- 5. The Elections of 1981 in Historical Perspective -- Select Bibliography -- Chronology -- Index

Departing from the usual emphasis on an urban and industrial context for the rise of socialism, Socialism in Provence 1871-1914 offers instead a reinterpretation of the early years of Marxist socialism in France among the peasantry. By focusing on a limited period and a particular region, Judt provides an account both of the character of political behavior in the countryside and of the history of left-wing politics in France.

Unlike most books, which treat labor, Socialist and Communist history separately and view French Marxism as a self-contained philosophical phenomenon, Marxism and the French Left offers a refreshingly different approach to the subject. Judt emphasizes the complex and interwoven themes that unify the topics of his essays to construct a distinctive and original interpretation of French left-wing politics over the past 150 years. "A well-informed and persuasive reinterpretation of the old French Left that is now receding beyond recall, except for historians."--Times Literary Supplement