Rethinking antifascism : history, memory and politics, 1922 to the present / edited by Hugo García, [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García, Hugo, 1975- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-fascist movements--History.

Anti-fascist movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Bringing together leading scholars from a range of nations, Rethinking Antifascism provides a fascinating exploration of one of the most vibrant sub-disciplines within recent historiography. Through case studies that exemplify the field’s breadth and sophistication, it examines antifascism in two distinct realms: after surveying the movement’s remarkable diversity across nations and political cultures up to 1945, the volume assesses its postwar political and ideological salience, from its incorporation into Soviet state doctrine to its radical questioning by historians and politicians. Avoiding both heroic narratives and reflexive revisionism, these contributions offer nuanced perspectives on a movement that helped to shape the postwar world.

Contents:

Rethinking Antifascism; Rethinking Antifascism - History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present - Edited by Hugo García, Mercedes Yusta, Xavier Tabet and Cristina Clímaco; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Beyond Revisionism - Rethinking Antifascism in the Twenty-First Century - Hugo García, Mercedes Yusta, Xavier Tabet and Cristina Clímaco; Part One - Historical Antifascism, 1922-45; 1 - Freedom for Thälmann! - The Comintern and the Orchestration of the Campaign to Free Ernst Thälmann, 1933-39 - Anson Rabinbach; 2 - Was the French Popular Front Antifascist? - Michael Seidman

3 - 'Beyond Cable Street' - New Approaches to the Historiography of Antifascism in Britain in the 1930s - Tom Buchanan4 - Searching for Antifascism - Historiography, the Crisis of the Liberal State and the Birth of Fascism and Antifascism in Italy, Spain and Portugal - Giulia Albanese; 5 - Was there an Antifascist Culture in Spain during the 1930s? - Hugo García; 6 - Portugal within the European Antifascist Movement, 1922-39 - Cristina Clímaco; 7 - The Argentine Antifascist Movement and the Building of a Tempting Domestic Appeal, 1922-46 - Andrés Bisso

8 - Women and Antifascism - Historiographical and Methodological Approaches - Isabelle Richet9 - The Strained Courtship between Antifascism and Feminism - From the Women's World Committee (1934) to the Women's International Democratic Federation (1945) - Mercedes Yusta; Part Two - Political Uses, Memory Wars and Revisionism from 1945 to the Present; 10 - From Antifascistas to PAF - Lexical and Political Interpretations of American International Brigaders in Spain during the Second World War - Robert S. Coale

11 - An Antifascist Political Identity? - On the Cult of Antifascism in the Soviet Union and post-Socialist Russia - José María Faraldo12 - The Burden of the Rear-View Mirror - Myth and Historiography of Republican Antifascism in France - Gilles Vergnon; 13 - Did Revisionism Win? - Italy between Loss of Historical Consciousness and Nostalgia for the Past - Stéfanie Prezioso; 14 - Antifascism and the Resistance - Public Debate and Politics of Memory in Italy from the 1990s to the Present - Filippo Focardi

15 - In Search of the Lost Narrative - Antifascism and Democracy in Present-Day Spain - Javier Muñoz Soro16 - Dictatorship and Revolution - Disputes over Collective Memory in Post-Authoritarian Portugal - Manuel Loff and Luciana Soutelo; 17 - Antifascism between Collective Memory and Historical Revisions - Enzo Traverso; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-488-7

1-78533-139-6

OCLC:

950884867