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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783033003321

Titolo

Opposing fascism [[electronic resource] ] : community, authority, and resistance in Europe / / edited by Tim Kirk and Anthony McElligott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, NY, USA, : Cambridge University Press, 1999

ISBN

1-107-12669-X

1-280-15190-0

0-511-11622-5

0-511-03958-1

0-511-14852-6

0-511-49707-5

0-511-33036-7

0-511-05314-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KirkTim <1958->

McElligottAnthony <1955->

Disciplina

320.94/09/041

Soggetti

Fascism - Europe

Anti-fascist movements - Europe

Europe Politics and government 1918-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Most of the chapters were presented as papers in a conference strand on 'Popular Resistance to Fascism'"--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Community, authority and resistance to fascism / Tim Kirk, Anthony McElligott -- The German revolution defeated and fascism deferred: the servicemen's revolt and social democracy at the end of the First World War, 1918-1920 / Nick Howard -- Dangerous communities and conservative authority: the judiciary, Nazis and rough people, 1932-1933 / Anthony McElligott -- The anti-fascist movement in south-east Lancashire, 1933-1940: the divergent experiences of Manchester and Nelson / Neil Barrett -- Spain 1936. Resistance and revolution: the flaws in the Front / Helen Graham -- The Blueshirts in the Irish Free State, 1932-1935: the nature of socialist republican and governmental opposition / Mike Cronin -- Town councils of the Nord



and Pas-de-Calais region: local power, French power, German power / Yves Le Maner -- Structures of authority in the Greek resistance, 1941-1944 / Mark Mazower -- Nazi Austria: the limits of dissent / Tim Kirk -- 'Homosexual' men in Vienna, 1938 / Hannes Sulzenbacher -- 'The years of consent'? Popular attitudes and forms of resistance to Fascism in Italy, 1925-1940 / Philip Morgan -- Saints and heroines: rewriting the history of Italian women in the Resistance / Perry R. Willson.

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative volume draws together a series of 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, both 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. The combination of original research and engagement with relevant debates makes this collection invaluable both for researchers in the social and political history of World War II and for students of modern European history.