Transnational and Transatlantic Fascism, 1918-2018

The Far Right in East Central and Southeastern Europe
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-35926-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right

This volume charts the history of transnational and transatlantic fascism in East Central and Southeastern Europe, a lesser-known phenomenon that occurred throughout the twentieth century into the present.

Organizations and individuals in this part of the continent, under the influences of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, conceptualized their own forms of fascism in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Due to the heterogenous nature of East Central Europe, fascism took various forms in the territories that prior to 1918 had belonged to the Habsburg, German, Russian, and Ottoman Empires. As a result, East Central Europe became a mosaic of fascist parties, organizations, and movements. During World War II, East Central and Southeastern European fascisms substantially contributed to collaboration with the Nazis and the genocide of the Jews. During the Cold War, East Central and Southeastern European fascists underwent multifaced aesthetic and ideological transformations in the Soviet Union and its satellites as well as in exile in the West. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of fascism re-emerged in the region, informing parts of the ideologies of various neo-fascist, radical nationalist, antisemitic, and national conservative parties and movements, as well as motivating communal politicians to erect monuments to fascists, war criminals, and antisemites.

With comprehensive coverage through a range of essays, this book is a helpful resource to scholars in European history, political history, and the study of fascism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rossolinski-Liebe, Grzegorz

Rudling, Per Anders

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Ost-West Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Transnational Fascism Part 1: Prewar 1. Understanding International Fascism: Fascist Regimes and Movements in Romanian Far-Right Newspapers 2. The Contagion of Fascism: Transnational Fascism, Interwar Latvia, and Pathways of Transmission 3. “Global idea expressed by Western Europe to prevent its own fall.” Czech fascism in a transnational perspective 4. Minority affinities? The sources of fascist appeal for Hungarian minority elites and organizations 5. Money in times of crisis. The influence of the Great Depression on the development of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists on emigration (1929–1933) Part 2: Persecution, Violence and Genocide 6. The Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: Fascism, Genocidal Violence and Collaboration 7. On Mass Killing, Martyrdom Culture, and the Body: The Ustasha Regime as a Case Study in (Trans)national Fascist Violence Part 3: Cold War and Transatlatic Fascism 8. Fascism in People’s Poland. The Complicated Afterlife of a Marginalized Phenomenon 9. Fascist Martyrdom for Export: Fr. Gheorghe Calciu Dumitreasa (1925–2006) and the “Saints of the Communist Prisons” as a Transnational Movement in Post-Communist Romania 10. Hollow Words, Broken Promises: The Ustaša, Ustašism, and the Croatian National Liberation Struggle during the Cold War 11. The memory of old fascisms in new spatial and temporal settings: Celebrating legionary sacrifice in Francoist Spain Part 4: Postsoviet Transatlantic Fascism  12. The Genie out of the Bottle: Engagement of the Argentinean-Croat post-WW2 Diaspora in Homeland Politics (1990–today) 13. The ideological discourse of Putin’s Russia: sovereigntism, neo-imperialism, and fascism 14. “Fighters for the Freedom of Ukraine”: Canada’s Nazi Collaborator Monuments

Über Autor(innen)

Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe is Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin. He studied at the European University Viadrina and holds a PhD from the University of Hamburg and a Habilitation from the Freie Universität Berlin.

Per Anders Rudling is an Associate Professor of history and a former Wallenberg Academy Fellow (2019–2024) at Lund University, Sweden. He holds MA degrees from the Universities of Uppsala (1998) and San Diego State (2003) and a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta (2009).