Synopses & Reviews
A series of new perspectives on the everyday experience of Europeans in the âage of fascismâ.
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. The German revolution deferred: the serviceman's revolt and social democracy at the end of the First World War Nick Howard; 2. Dangerous communities - conservative authority: judiciary, Nazis, and rough people, 1932-33 Anthony McElligott; 3. The anti-Fascist movement in south-east Lancashire, 1933-1940: the divergent experiences of Manchester and Nelson Neil Bartlett; 4. Spain 1936 - resistance and revolution: the flaws in the front Helen Graham; 5. The Blueshirts and the Irish Free State, 1932-1935: the nature of socialist republican and governmmental 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, 1941-44 Mark Mazower; 8. Nazi Austria: the limits of dissent Tim Kirk; 'Homosexual' men in Vienna, 1938 Hannes Sülzenbacher; 10. The years of consent? popular attitudes and forms of resistance to Fascism in Italy, 1925-1940 Philip Morgan; 11. Saints and heroines: rewriting the history of Italian women in the resistance to Fascism Perry R. Wilson.