Rethinking antifascism : history, memory and politics, 1922 to the present
Hugo García (Editor), Mercedes Yusta Rodrigo (Editor), Xavier Tabet (Editor), Cristina Clímaco (Editor)
Rethinking Antifascism surveys recent research on the anti-fascist movement between 1922 and 1945. It first challenges the revisionist view of anti-fascism as a tool of Stalinism, then discusses the post-War memories and political uses of anti-fascism.
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9781785331398, 1785331396
1100955634
Acknowledgments Introduction: Beyond Revisionism: Rethinking Antifascism in the Twenty-First Century Hugo García, Mercedes Yusta, Xavier Tabet, Cristina Clímaco PART I: HISTORICAL ANTIFASCISM, 1922-1945: NEW PERSPECTIVES , NEW RESEARCH TOPICS Chapter 1. Freedom for Thälmann! The Comintern and the Orchestration of the Campaign to Free Ernst Thälmann, 1933-39 Anson Rabinbach Chapter 2. Was the French Popular Front Antifascist? Michael Seidman Chapter 3. ‘Beyond Cable Street’: New Approaches to the Historiography of Antifascism in Britain in the 1930s Tom Buchanan Chapter 4. Searching for Antifascism: Historiography, the Crisis of the Liberal State and the Birth of Fascism and Antifascism in Italy, Spain and Portugal Giulia Albanese Chapter 5. Was there an Antifascist Culture in Spain during the 1930s? Hugo García Chapter 6. Portugal within the European Antifascist Movement, 1922-39 Cristina Clímaco Chapter 7. The Argentine Antifascist Movement and the Building of a Tempting Domestic Appeal, 1922-46 Andrés Bisso Chapter 8. Women and Antifascism: Historiographical and Methodological Approaches Isabelle Richet Chapter 9. The Strained Courtship between Antifascism and Feminism: from the Women’s World Committee (1934) to the Women’s International Democratic Federation (1945) Mercedes Yusta PART II: POLITICAL USES, MEMORY WARS AND REVISIONISM FROM 1945 TO THE PRESENT Chapter 10. From Antifascistas to PAF: Lexical and Political Interpretations of American International Brigaders in Spain and World War II Robert S. Coale Chapter 11. An Antifascist Political Identity? On the Cult of Antifascism in the Soviet Union and post-Socialist Russia José María Faraldo Chapter 12. The Burden of the Rear-view Mirror: Myth and Historiography of Republican Antifascism in France Gilles Vergnon Chapter 13. Did Revisionism Win? Italy between Loss of Historical Consciousness and Nostalgia for the Past Stéphanie Prezioso Chapter 14. Antifascism and the Resistance: Public Debates and Politics of Memory in Italy from the 1990s to Today Filippo Focardi Chapter 15. In Search of the Lost Narrative: Antifascism and Democracy in Present Day Spain Javier Muñoz Soro Chapter 16. Dictatorship and Revolution: Disputes over Collective Memory in Post-Authoritarian Portugal. Manuel Loff and Luciana Soutelo Chapter 17. Antifascism between Collective Memory and Historical Revisions Enzo Traverso Bibliography Index