Anti-fascism in European History

Sabrina P. Ramet is a Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. She is also a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and a Research Associate of the Science and Research Center of the Republic of Slovenia, Koper. She is the author of 13 scholarly books.Jože Pirjevec is a Principal Research Associate at the Science and Research Centre, Koper, and a Full Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. As a recipient of grants from Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Foundation, the Nobel Institute, the Soviet Academy of Sciences and other reputable institutions, he has conducted research work in Washington, London, Berlin, Moscow, and other archives and libraries. Egon Pelikan is a full professor and head of the Institute of Historical Studies of the Science and Research Centre in Koper (Slovenia). As a member of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he was a visiting professor at the Department of History of the University of Duisburg-Essen (2004/2005).

• PrefaceIntroduction: What is Anti-Fascism? Its Values, its Strengths, its DiversitiesJože Pirjevec, Egon Pelikan, and Sabrina P. Ramet  PART I. Anti-Fascism in Fascist Italiy's BorderlandsChapter 1. Hate SpeechJože Pirjevec Chapter 2. Comparison of Fascist and national defense discourseVesna MikoličChapter 3. Fascism, Anti-fascism, and Ethnic Engineering in the Former Austrian LittoralBorut KlabjanChapter 4. Persevering on the Ramparts of the Nation: The Anti-fascism of Educated Women, Feminists, and Activists in the Littoral in the 1920sMarta Verginella Chapter 5. The anti-fascism of the Slovenian and Croatian Clergy in the Julian March during the Interwar Period – A View from the VaticanEgon Pelikan PART II. The Diversity of Anti-FascismChapter 6. The Anti-fascism of Hans & Sophie Scholl: Intellectual Sources of the White RoseSabrina P. Ramet and Christine M. HassenstabChapter 7. The Committee against Neofascism and Racial Prejudices: Nordic Anti-Fascist Organizing and International Solidarity in the 1960sPontus JärvstadChapter 8. Anti-fascism in the land of holy water blessed by the swastika: The case of the Slovak StateMarek Syrný and Anton Hruboň Chapter 9. Mussolini, Vilfan and the Slovenian minorityGianfranco Cresciani Chapter 10. From the Bauhaus to Buchenwald and to Berlin: Anti-fascism and Career in the Life of Franz EhrlichKlaus TragbarPART III. Anti-Fascism as a Legitimating IdeologyChapter 11. Passing the Torch: The Challenges of Anti-fascist Memory Transmission through Youth Ritual and Commemoration in the GDRCatherine J. PlumChapter 12. Memory Practices in Slovenia through the Lens of Public OpinionVida Rožac DarovecChapter 13. A Note about the Collective Memory of Anti-Fascism since World War Two and its RevisionBožo Repe Chapter 14. A Dire Warning to All Ethnic Minorities in Europe? Fascist Repression in South Tyrol and the Formation of Swedish-Speaking Anti-fascism in FinlandKasper Braskén Chapter 15. Maritime Communists Against Fascism and in Defense of the USSR: Transnational Anti-fascism in a Danish Perspective, 1933-1938Jesper Jørgensen Afterword: “Are you a communist? No, I am an anti-fascist”Nigel CopseyAbout the authorsFor further readingIndex of Names

"In this volume, the editors have assembled a wide array of contributions covering the complex history of antifascism, fascism, and anti-anti-fascism in Italy, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Slovakia and, last but not least, Slovenia. The ongoing war in Europe, and its alleged goal of fighting Ukrainian ‘nazism’, is proof of how important such knowledge and scholarship is for historians and non-historians alike."https://www.prio.org/journals/jpr/booknotes/379