Rethinking Antifascism

Rethinking Antifascism - History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present - Edited by Hugo García, Mercedes Yusta, Xavier Tabet and Cristina Clímaco

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction - Beyond Revisionism - Rethinking Antifascism in the Twenty-First Century - Hugo García, Mercedes Yusta, Xavier Tabet and Cristina Clímaco

Part One - Historical Antifascism, 1922–45

1 - Freedom for Thälmann! - The Comintern and the Orchestration of the Campaign to Free Ernst Thälmann, 1933–39 - Anson Rabinbach

2 - Was the French Popular Front Antifascist? - Michael Seidman

3 - ‘Beyond Cable Street’ - New Approaches to the Historiography of Antifascism in Britain in the 1930s - Tom Buchanan

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

5 - Was there an Antifascist Culture in Spain during the 1930s? - Hugo García

6 - Portugal within the European Antifascist Movement, 1922–39 - Cristina Clímaco

7 - The Argentine Antifascist Movement and the Building of a Tempting Domestic Appeal, 1922–46 - Andrés Bisso

8 - Women and Antifascism - Historiographical and Methodological Approaches - Isabelle Richet

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 Two - Political Uses, Memory Wars and Revisionism from 1945 to the Present

10 - From Antifascistas to PAF - Lexical and Political Interpretations of American International Brigaders in Spain during the Second World War - Robert S. Coale

11 - An Antifascist Political Identity? - On the Cult of Antifascism in the Soviet Union and post-Socialist Russia - José María Faraldo

12 - The Burden of the Rear-View Mirror - Myth and Historiography of Republican Antifascism in France - Gilles Vergnon

13 - Did Revisionism Win? - Italy between Loss of Historical Consciousness and Nostalgia for the Past - Stéfanie Prezioso

14 - Antifascism and the Resistance - Public Debate and Politics of Memory in Italy from the 1990s to the Present - Filippo Focardi

15 - In Search of the Lost Narrative - Antifascism and Democracy in Present-Day Spain - Javier Muñoz Soro

16 - Dictatorship and Revolution - Disputes over Collective Memory in Post-Authoritarian Portugal - Manuel Loff and Luciana Soutelo

17 - Antifascism between Collective Memory and Historical Revisions - Enzo Traverso

Index