Opposing Fascism: Community, Authority and Resistance in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780521483094 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 258 str.

Tim Kirk; Anthony McElligott

Opis

This innovative volume draws together in a wide-ranging collection a series of new perspectives on the everyday experience of Europeans in the "age of fascism." The contributions go beyond the conventional stereotypes of organized resistance to examine the tensions and ambiguities within the communities, national and local, that opposed fascism. The authors show that under the pressures of civil conflict, occupation, and even everyday life, motives were rarely as pure and political alignments seldom as straightforward as our reassuring collective memories of fascism and war have led us to believe.

Recenzje

'This interesting collection of essays … is more than a useful addition to those studies already in the field.' The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: community, authority and resistance to fascism Tim Kirk and Anthony McElligott; 1. The German revolution defeated and fascism deferred: the serviceman's revolt and social democracy at the end of the First World War, 1918–20 Nick Howard; 2. Dangerous communities and conservative authority: the judiciary, Nazis and rough people, 1932–3 Anthony McElligott; 3. The anti-fascist movement in south-east Lancashire, 1933–40: the divergent experiences of Manchester and Nelson Neil Barrett; 4. Spain 1936. Resistance and revolution: the flaws in the front Helen Graham; 5. The Blueshirts in the Irish Free State, 1932–5: the nature of socialist republican and governmental opposition Mike Cronin; 6. Town councils of the Nord and Pas-de-Calais region: local power, French power, German power Yves Le Maner; 7. Structures of authority in the Greek resistance, 1941–4 Mark Mazower; 8. Nazi Austria: the limits of dissent Tim Kirk; 9. 'Homosexual' men in Vienna, 1938 Hannes Sulzenbacher; 10. 'The years of consent'? Popular attitudes and forms of resistance to Fascism in Italy, 1925–40 Philip Morgan; 11. Saints and heroines: rewriting the history of Italian women in the Resistance Perry R. Wilson; Notes; Index.