Anti-Fascism in European History : : From the 1920s to Today.

• Funder: Opening the Future
• Author: Pirjevec, Jože, 1940-; Opening the Future
• TeilnehmendeR: Pelikan, Egon.; Ramet, Sabrina P., 1949-
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest : : Central European University Press,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Political Radicalization: Historical and Comparative Perspectives Series ; v.1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (295 pages)

"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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

What is Anti-Fascism? Its values, its Strengths, its Diversities / Jože Pirjevec, Egon Pelikan, and Sabrina P. Ramet -- Part One. ANTI-FASCISM IN FASCIST ITALY'S BORDERLANDS -- Hate Speech: "Words can be stones" (Primo Levi) / Jože Pirjevec -- Comparison of Fascist and National Defense Discourse / Vesna Mikolič -- Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and Ethnic Engineering in the Former Austrian Littoral / Borut Klabjan -- Persevering on the Ramparts of the Nation: The Anti-fascism of Educated Women, Feminists, and Activists in the Littoral in the 1920s / Marta Verginella -- The Anti-Fascism of the Slovenian and Croatian Clergy in the Julian March during the Interwar Period A View from the Vatican / Egon Pelikan -- Part Two. THE DIVERSITY OF ANTI-FASCISM -- The Anti-Fascism of Hans & Sophie Scholl: Intellectual Sources of the White Rose / Sabrina P. Ramet and Christine M. Hassenstab -- The Committee against Neofascism and Racial Prejudices: Nordic Anti-Fascist Organizing and International Solidarity in the 1960s / Pontus Järvstad -- Anti-fascism in the Land of Holy Water Blessed by the Swastika: The Case of the Slovak State / Marek Syrný and Anton Hruboň -- Mussolini, Vilfan, and the Slovenian Minority / Gianfranco Cresciani -- From the Bauhaus to Buchenwald and to Berlin: Anti-fascism and Career in the Life of Franz Ehrlich / Klaus Tragbar -- Part Three. ANTI-FASCISM AS A LEGITIMATING IDEOLOGY -- Passing the Torch: The Challenges of Anti-fascist Memory Transmission through Youth Ritual and Commemoration in the GDR / Catherine J. Plum -- Memory Practices in Slovenia through the Lens of Public Opinion / Vida Rožac Darovec -- A Note about the Collective Memory of Anti-fascism since World War Two and its Revision / Božo Repe -- A Dire Warning to All Ethnic Minorities in Europe? -- Fascist Repression in South Tyrol and the Formation of Swedish-Speaking Anti-fascism in Finland / Kasper Brasken -- Maritime Communists Against Fascism and in Defense of the USSR: Transnational Anti-fascism in a Danish Perspective, 1933-1938 / Jesper Jorgensen -- Afterword "Are you a communist? No, I am an anti-fascist" / Nigel Copsey.