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Vichy, a Fascist State?

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Despite debates and controversies, Vichy cannot be considered as a Fascist State since many criteria defining Fascism are lacking. Pétain refused to create a sole Party, avoided to get France involved in a new war, hatred modernization and supported the Church. Vichy has nevertheless been more than a mere dictatorship and has been, at first, sustained by a huge part of the French.

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    Olivier Wieviorka

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  1. Department of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Ismael Saz

  2. Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Zira Box

  3. Department of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Toni Morant

  4. Department of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Julián Sanz

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Wieviorka, O. (2019). Vichy, a Fascist State?. In: Saz, I., Box, Z., Morant, T., Sanz, J. (eds) Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Studies in Political History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22411-0_17

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