Rethinking Antifascism : : History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present / / ed. by Hugo García, Mercedes Yusta, Xavier Tabet, Cristina Clímaco.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Albanese, Giulia,; Bisso, Andrés,; Buchanan, Tom,; Clímaco, Cristina,; Coale, Robert S.,; Faraldo, José María,; Focardi, Filippo,; García, Hugo,; Loff, Manuel,; Prezioso, Stéfanie,; Rabinbach, Anson,; Richet, Isabelle,; Seidman, Michael,; Soro, Javier Muñoz,; Soutelo, Luciana,; Tabet, Xavier,; Traverso, Enzo,; Vergnon, Gilles,; Yusta, Mercedes,
• HerausgeberIn: Clímaco, Cristina,; García, Hugo,; Tabet, Xavier,; Yusta, Mercedes,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Beyond Revisionism: Rethinking Antifascism in the Twenty-First Century -- Part One • Historical Antifascism, 1922–45 New Perspectives, New Research Topics -- 1 Freedom for Thälmann! The Comintern and the Orchestration of the Campaign to Free Ernst Thälmann, 1933–39 -- 2 Was the French Popular Front Antifascist? -- 3 ‘Beyond Cable Street’ New Approaches to the Historiography of Antifascism in Britain in the 1930s -- 4 Searching for Antifascism: Historiography, the Crisis of the Liberal State and the Birth of Fascism and Antifascism in Italy, Spain and Portugal -- 5 Was there an Antifascist Culture in Spain during the 1930s? -- 6 Portugal within the European Antifascist Movement, 1922–39 -- 7 The Argentine Antifascist Movement and the Building of a Tempting Domestic Appeal, 1922–46 -- 8 Women and Antifascism: Historiographical and Methodological Approaches -- 9 The Strained Courtship between Antifascism and Feminism: From the Women’s World Committee (1934) to the Women’s International Democratic Federation (1945) -- 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 -- 11 An Antifascist Political Identity? On the Cult of Antifascism in the Soviet Union and post-Socialist Russia -- 12 The Burden of the Rear-View Mirror: Myth and Historiography of Republican Antifascism in France -- 13 Did Revisionism Win? Italy between Loss of Historical Consciousness and Nostalgia for the Past -- 14 Antifascism and the Resistance: Public Debate and Politics of Memory in Italy from the 1990s to the Present -- 15 In Search of the Lost Narrative: Antifascism and Democracy in Present-Day Spain -- 16 Dictatorship and Revolution: Disputes over Collective Memory in Post-Authoritarian -- 17 Antifascism between Collective Memory and Historical Revisions -- Index