Opposing Fascism: Community, Authority and Resistance in Europe

by Edited by Tim Kirk , Anthony McElligott

• ISBN13: 9780521483094
• ISBN10: 0521483093
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Introduction: Community, authority and resistance to fascism	1	(11)
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	12	(21)
Nick Howard
Dangerous communities and conservative authority: the judiciary, Nazis and rough people, 1932--1933	33	(15)
Anthony McElligott
The anti-fascist movement in south-east Lancashire, 1933--1940: the divergent experiences of Manchester and Nelson	48	(15)
Neil Barrett
Spain 1936. Resistance and revolution: the flaws in the Front	63	(17)
Helen Graham
The Blueshirts in the Irish Free State, 1932--1935: the nature of socialist republican and governmental opposition	80	(17)
Mike Cronin
Town councils of the Nord and Pas-de-Calais region: local power, French power, German power	97	(23)
Yves Le Maner
Structure of authority in the Greek resistance, 1941--1944	120	(13)
Mark Mazower
Nazi Austria: the limits of dissent	133	(17)
Tim Kirk
`Homosexual' men in Vienna, 1938	150	(13)
Hannes Sulzenbacher
`The years of consent'? Popular attitudes and forms of resistance to Fascism in Italy, 1925--1940	163	(17)
Philip Morgan
Saints and heroines: rewriting the history of Italian women in the Resistance	180	(19)
Perry R. Willson
Notes	199	(38)
Index	237