Marco BrescianiLearning from the Enemy
An Intellectual History of Antifascism in Interwar Europe
Marco Bresciani is Associate Professor at the University of Florence, Department of Political and Social Sciences. He received his PhD in Contemporary History at the University of Pisa. He was a fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), Remarque Institute (NYU), Centre de Recherches Politiques R. Aron (Ecole Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Center for Advanced Studies (Rijeka), University of Zagreb, University of Verona. His research concerns Italian and European antifascism and anti-totalitarianism, socialism and liberalism, as well as nationalism and fascism between Italian and Central Europe. He published Quale antifascism? Storia di Giustizia e Libertà (Rome 2017) and edited Conservatives and Right Radicals in Interwar Europe (London 2021).
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Introduction
Which Antifascism?
Learning from the Enemy
1. Antifascism as an Experiment
1.1. Understanding Fascism Means Fighting Fascism
1.2. Group Picture: Between Giolitti and Mussolini
1.3. Blending Liberalism, Democracy, and Socialism
1.4. The Turtle Conspiracy
1.5. In the Shadow of Piero (But Not Only)
2. Exile in Paris as a Laboratory
2.1. Fascism: ‘Th e Autobiography of a Nation’, or of Europe?
2.2. Crisis of Democracy and of the Nation-State
2.3. Class Politics, Revolutionary Myths, Soviet Dictatorship
2.4. ‘Non-Conformist’ Strategies of Imitation and Competition
2.5. Crisis of Civilization
3. Time for Action?
3.1. A ‘European Civil War’
3.2. ‘Which Italy?’
3.3. ‘Conspiracy in Broad Daylight’ (Turin)
3.4. Different Time Frames
3.5. Spain: An International Battleground
4. Shades of Socialism
4.1. Rosselli’s Legacy: What Form of Socialism in an Age of Tyranny?
4.2. Nations, Europes, and Empires
4.3. Exploring the World (from a Prison Cell in Rome)
4.4. In the Footsteps of Heretics and Utopians
5. A Posthumous (and Hidden) Vitality
5.1. From the Fall of Paris to the Resistance
5.2. The Knight and the Castle
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