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An expansive collection examining fascism's transnational dimension.
Investigates the movements inspired by the early example of Fascist Italy.
Explores the international antifascist organizations that emerged in subsequent years.
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List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Fascism without Borders. Transnational Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe, 1918 – 1945
Arnd Bauerkämper and Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe
Chapter 1. Transnational Fascism: The Fascist New Order, Violence, and Creative Destruction
Artistotle Kallis
Chapter 2. Corporatist Connections: The Transnational Rise of the Fascist Model in Interwar Europe
Matteo Pasetti
Chapter 3. Organizing Leisure: Extension of Propaganda into New Realms by the Italian and British Fascist Movements
Anna Lena Kocks
Chapter 4. The Brotherhood of Youth’ – A Case Study of the Ustaša and Hlinka Youth Connections and Exchanges
Goran Miljan
Chapter 5. The Estado Novo and Portuguese-German Relations in the Age of Fascism
Cláudia Ninhos
Chapter 6. Inter-Fascist Conflicts in East Central Europe: The Nazis, the “Austrofascists”, the Iron Guard, and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe
Chapter 7. Fascist Poetry for Europe. Transnational Fascism and the Case of Robert Brasillach
Marleen Rensen
Chapter 8. Native Fascists, Transnational Anti-Semites: The International Activity of Legionary Leader Ion I. Moţa
Raul Cârstocea
Chapter 9. Italian Fascism from a Transnational Perspective: The Debate on the New European Order (1930 – 1945)
Monica Fioravanzo
Chapter 10. The Nazi “New Europe”. Transnational Concepts of a Fascist and Völkisch Order for the Continent
Johannes Dafinger
Chapter 11. Communist Anti-Fascism and Transnational Fascism: Comparisons, Transfers, Entanglements
Kasper Braskén
Chapter 12. Antifascism in Europe: Networks, Exchanges, and Influences. The Case of Silvio Trentin in Toulouse and in the Resistenza in Veneto (1926 – 1944)
Silvia Madotto
Chapter 13. German and Italian Democratic Socialists in Exile: Interpretations of Fascism and Transnational Aspects of Resistance in the Sopade and Giustizia e Libertà
Francesco Di Palma
Afterword: Between Cooperation and Conflict. Perspectives of Historical Research on Transnational Fascism
Arnd Bauerkämper
Index
About the author
Arnd Bauerkämper is a Professor of Modern European History at the Freie Universität Berlin. His publications include Der Faschismus in Europa, 1918-1945 (2006) and Das umstrittene Gedächtnis. Die Erinnerung an Nationalsozialismus, Faschismus und Krieg in Europa seit 1945 (2012).
Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Guest Lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is the recipient of the Kagan Fellowship from the Jewish Claims Conference, the Harry Frank Guggenheim scholarship, and several other awards. He is the author of Stepan Bandera—The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult (2014).
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An expansive collection examining fascism’s transnational dimension. Investigates the movements inspired by the early example of Fascist Italy. Explores the international antifascist organizations that emerged in subsequent years.
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"These 13 essays by current specialists, each employing a cross-border comparative approach to fascism, provide upper-level undergraduate students with both methodological insights into the transnational approach and solid, well-researched findings... The strength of this collection lies in fleshing out the details of the consensus scholars have reached... Scholars will appreciate the works-cited endnotes and exhaustive bibliography (both primary and secondary sources) that accompany each essay." • Choice
"Overall this volume presents an impressive panorama of the transnational networks of fascist groups in Europe that will not only enrich the research on fascism but also offer for anybody interested in history a solid insight into the topic." • Sehepunkte
"A welcome contribution to the growing literature on fascism as a transnational phenomenon during the era of the two world wars. Based on much innovative new research, a notably multinational group of European scholars offers illuminating insights on a wide variety of topics involving interaction among fascists across national borders. All students of fascism will learn from this book." • David D. Roberts, University of Georgia
