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

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 di...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
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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