Edited by Jo\u017ee Pirjevec, Egon Pelikan, Sabrina P. Ramet<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The increasing radicalization of political life in most countries in Europe lends special relevance to studies of the antifascist legacies on the continent. This insightful collection of essays is an in-depth review of antifascism in Slovenia, setting it in the context of related movements elsewhere in Europe. The period treated by the 19 essays comprises the interwar period, World War Two, and the post-war decades. The comparative and transnational perspectives advanced by the volume change our understanding of antifascism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The essays deal with the right-wing but also left-wing instrumentalization of antifascism, with a particular focus on the communist and post-communist periods. The authors point out that antifascism comes in various strains, whether inspired by liberalism, social democracy, communism, monarchism, anarchism, or even Christian conservatism. The contributors bring to light several overlooked antifascist actors, campaigns, and organisations, mostly in Slovenia and the Adriatic area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Preface<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Introduction: What is Anti-Fascism? Its Values, its Strengths, its Diversities \u2013 Jo\u017ee Pirjevec, Egon Pelikan,<\/em> and<\/em> Sabrina P. Ramet <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n PART ONE \u2013 ANTI-FASCISM IN FASCIST ITALY\u2019S BORDERLANDS<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 1: Hate Speech \u2013 Jo\u017ee Pirjevec <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 2: Comparison of Fascist and national defense discourse \u2013Vesna Mikoli\u010d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 3: Fascism, Anti-fascism, and Ethnic Engineering in the Former Austrian Littoral \u2013 Borut Klabjan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 4: Persevering on the Ramparts of the Nation: The Anti-fascism of Educated Women, Feminists, and Activists in the Littoral in the 1920s \u2013 Marta Verginella <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 5: The anti-fascism of the Slovenian and Croatian Clergy in the Julian March during the Interwar Period \u2013 A View from the Vatican \u2013 Egon Pelikan <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PART TWO \u2013 THE DIVERSITY OF ANTI-FASCISM<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 6: The Anti-fascism of Hans & Sophie Scholl: Intellectual Sources of the White Rose \u2013 Sabrina P. Ramet and Christine M. Hassenstab<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 7: The Committee against Neofascism and Racial Prejudices: Nordic Anti-Fascist Organizing and International Solidarity in the 1960s \u2013 Pontus J\u00e4rvstad <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 8: Anti-fascism in the land of holy water blessed by the swastika: The case of the Slovak State — Marek Syrn\u00fd and Anton Hrubo\u0148 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 9: Mussolini, Vilfan and the Slovenian minority \u2013 Gianfranco Cresciani <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 10: From the Bauhaus to Buchenwald and to Berlin: Anti-fascism and Career in the Life of Franz Ehrlich \u2013 Klaus Tragbar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PART THREE \u2013 ANTI-FASCISM AS A LEGITIMATING IDEOLOGY<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 11: Passing the Torch: The Challenges of Anti-fascist Memory Transmission through Youth Ritual and Commemoration in the GDR \u2013 Catherine J. Plum<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 12: Memory Practices in Slovenia through the Lens of Public Opinion \u2013 Vida Ro\u017eac Darovec <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 13: A Note about the Collective Memory of Anti-Fascism since World War Two and its Revision \u2013 Bo\u017eo Repe <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 14: A Dire Warning to All Ethnic Minorities in Europe? Fascist Repression in South Tyrol and the Formation of Swedish-Speaking Anti-fascism in Finland \u2013 Kasper Brask\u00e9n <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 15: Maritime Communists Against Fascism and in Defense of the USSR: Transnational Anti-fascism in a Danish Perspective, 1933-1938 \u2013 Jesper J\u00f8rgensen <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Afterword: \u201cAre you a communist? No, I am an anti-fascist\u201d \u2013 Nigel Copsey <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n About the authors Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cathie Carmichael, University of East Anglia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTimely and original, this edited volume brings together a combination of thoughtful and well-crafted articles. Many of the case studies and micro-histories of Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Denmark, Slovakia, and Finland cast new light on anti-fascism\u2019s important role. This volume is essential reading for all scholars who care about the past and the future of Central Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAt a time when \u2018fascism\u2019 and \u2018anti-fascism\u2019 have too often been flung around like weapons in a children\u2019s wet sponge fighting using filthy water, this extraordinarily comprehensive book is a welcome addition to the small number of reliable sources about the modern fight against the extreme right available to serious academics and political journalists. With an unusual degree of conceptual sophistication in the way it addresses the rich theme of anti-fascism, it not only offers a uniquely wide coverage of its many interwar manifestations, but also takes a hard look at its complex post-war evolutions and permutations. Nor does it neglect the special place in the struggle against fascism occupied by women and communists in the defense of their own causes. Anti-Fascism in European History sets a new benchmark for genuinely comparative and collaborative politico-historical studies purged of any trace of spurious distinctions between the center and the periphery, or the political, the social and the historical.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Publication date: 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n 300 pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n Access: Open Access<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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