Le processus de conversion politique d’un pasteur chaux-de-fonnier au cours de la Grande guerre : quand Jules Humbert-Droz devint un révolutionnaire suisse (1914-1919)
This article presents how biographical work helps understand the more global mechanisms of an individual’s political conversion. Here the purpose is to unravel the reasons which led a socialist pastor, who displayed no sign of any form of political radicalism at the outbreak of the First War, to tur...
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| Language: | English |
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UMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA)
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Les Cahiers de Framespa |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/framespa/11174 |
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| Summary: | This article presents how biographical work helps understand the more global mechanisms of an individual’s political conversion. Here the purpose is to unravel the reasons which led a socialist pastor, who displayed no sign of any form of political radicalism at the outbreak of the First War, to turn to Bolshevism during the conflict. A political conversion that led to political, social, and friendly consequences. Jules Humbert Droz is no longer a mere socialist and anti-militarist militant, but becomes, in the eyes of the state, of moderate socialists, and of a section of the population, an agent of the Bolshevik subversion and an actor in the dissemination of revolutionary ideas in Switzerland. A political choice that allowed him to quickly climb the ranks of the international communist organizations and to become a revolutionary on an international scale. |
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| ISSN: | 1760-4761 |