Conservatives and Right Radicals in Interwar Europe

This book features a broad range of thematic and national case studies which explore the interrelations and confrontations between conservatives and the radical right in the European and global contexts of the interwar years.

Autorentext

Marco Bresciani is a Research Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Florence, Italy. His main research fields are the political and intellectual history of Italian and European socialism, antifascism, and anti-totalitarianism, as well as the political and social history of the post-Habsburg Northern Adriatic and of the post-war ascent of fascism.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. "Laboratory for World Destruction": The Habsburg Monarchy and Fascism 2. Volksdeutsch Revisionism: East Central Europe's Ethnic Germans and the Order of Paris 3. Conservative and Radical Dynamics of Italian Fascism: An (East) European Perspective (19181938) 4. The Crisis of Legitimacy and the Rise of the Radical Right in Interwar Yugoslavia (19181941) 5. Integral Nationalism in Absence of Nation-State: The Case of Ukraine 6. Catholic Authoritarians or Fascists as Such? The Polish Rightist Subculture Turns Fascist (19191939) 7. Faith, Family and Fatherland: Conservatism and Right Radicalism in Interwar Hungary 8. The Romanian Right: Images of Crisis, the Press and the Rise of Fascism 9. Nationalism and Authoritarianism in Interwar Greece (19221940) 10. Dynamics of Division: The French Right (19181941) 11. Consecrating the Fatherland: Catholicism, Nationalism and Fascism in Spain (19191939) 12. In the Mirror of Fascism: Portugal and the Italian Experience 13. America as Alternative to European Radicalism? The United States and the Transnational Rise of the Right 14. Fascism After Fascism: History and Politics