European Fascist Movements: A Sourcebook

ISBN-13: 9780367262860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 432 str.

Roland Clark; Tim Grady

Opis

This volume offers a fresh and original collection of primary sources on interwar European fascist movements. These sources reflect new approaches to fascism that emphasize the practical, transnational experience of fascism as a social movement, contextualising ideological statements within the historical moments they were produced.

Divided into 18 geographically based chapters, contributors draw together the history of various fascist and right-wing movements, selecting sources that reflect themes such as transnational ties, aesthetics, violence, female activism, and the instrumentalisation of race, gender, and religion. Each chapter provides a chronological, narrative account of movements interspersed with complete primary sources, from political speeches, internal movement circulars and articles, police reports, oral history, songs and music, photographs, artworks, poetry, and anti-fascist sources. The volume as a whole seeks to introduce readers to the diversity of fascist groups across the continent, to show how fascist groups were constituted through social bonds, rather than around fixed ideologies, and to capture the inexperience and ad hoc character of early fascist groups.

With an Introduction that explains the volume’s theoretical approach, elaborates on the chronology of European fascism, and identifies six transnational ‘waves of protest’, this is the perfect sourcebook for any student of Modern European history and politics.

Spis treści

European Fascist Movements: An Introduction  1. Italy  2. Germany  3. Austria  4. Belgium  5. Britain  6. Croats  7. Finland  8. France  9. Hungary  10. Ireland  11. Latvia  12. Netherlands  13. Romania  16. Slovaks  15. Spain  16. Czechoslovakia’s Germans  17. Sweden  18. Ukrainians