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An 8 page research paper that discusses and analyzes four articles that pertain to the historical nature and interpretation of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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As Gerard Filion has commented, during the Quiet Revolution, Quebec was "undergoing a degree of socio-economic change unparalleled in any Western industrialized country. Some of this change was prompted by
Quebecs rapidly growing population, but also the traditional manufacturing sectors all rapidly increased their production. (22). Furthermore, an "expanded and diversified" French middle class emerged.2 Historians have addressed the
nature of this dramatic change. However, because historians tend to interpret the influences on this extraordinary period in Quebecs history differently, it is necessary to evaluate multiple views in order
to begin to obtain some inkling of understanding of the multiplicity of forces that contributed to this radical social development. This point is illustrated by examining the viewpoints and principal
points of the following historians. Although the Quiet Revolution and modernity are associated with the 1960s, Donald Cuccioletta and Martin Lubin argue that modernity was well under way
in Quebec prior to the advent of the Quiet Revolution and that this social phenomenon should be understood not in terms of revolution, but rather in terms of being an
evolutionary process.3 On June 22, 1960, in a provincial election, the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP) replaced the Union National (UN) government, which had held power, except during the years of
World War II, since 1936.4 The modernization that had been occurring for quite sometime accelerated under this new leadership. Within thirty days, the Quebec government, under the leadership of Premier
Jean Lesage, accomplished innumerable tasks, so many that many scholars have compared it to the first hundred days of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration in the U.S.5 Rapid reforms
were instituted; the Department of Youth, which later became the Ministry of Education, was created; and the Treasury Board was authorized to oversee all government expenditures over $15,000.6 Fundamentally, Cuccioletta
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