Far-right political ideologies and movements Books

Book SynopsisThe classic text on the history and theory of fascism, revised for the twentieth anniversary of its first publicationTrade Review'David Renton's thoughtful and open-minded study shines a light on this often misunderstood political current and contains vital lessons for anti-fascists today' -- Daniel Trilling, author of 'Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe''An invaluable book showing us again why and how Marxists have been the best interpreters and fighters against fascism. Renton's updates make this even more urgent reading for taking on the return of fascist ideas in our time' -- Bill V. Mullen, author of 'James Baldwin: Living in Fire''This book is so much more than a historical survey because Renton’s detailed description of the development, growth and successful establishment of pre-war fascist regimes chimes worryingly with contemporary times' -- Morning Star'Fascism: History and Theory not only remains a thorough account of interwar Marxism’s understanding of fascism, but also provides a strong argument for a vital understanding of fascism, both in analysis and as practice' -- ROAR'A nuanced and intelligent discussion of what constitutes fascism' -- CounterpunchTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Anti-Fascist Wager 1. Interwar Fascism 2. An Alternative Method 3. Marxists against Mussolini and Hitler 4. Benjamin, Gramsci, Trotsky 5. Beyond 1933 6. Marxists and the Holocaust Conclusion: A Specific Form of Reactionary Mass Movement Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe demand for free speech on campus is a distraction, we need to follow the moneyTrade Review‘This deeply researched and urgent book reads like a detective mystery. A riveting self-defence manual for all who fear for the future of our country and our planet' -- Nancy MacLean, author of ‘Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America’‘Universities regularly conduct important discussions of free speech. And then there is the largely imaginary ‘campus free speech crisis’. This book is a detailed and valuable guide to the shadowy right-wing financial networks irresponsibly stoking the latter to the growing detriment of the former’ -- Hank Reichman, Professor Emeritus of History, California State University, East Bay‘An essential analysis of the amped-up culture wars over free speech’ -- ‘Times Higher Education’‘An insightful dive into the ways higher education has been impacted—indeed, manipulated—by conservatives. Read it and fight back’ -- Eleanor J. Bader, ‘The Progressive’'Deeply researched and well-argued' -- ‘Inside Higher Education’Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Overview of the Koch’s Campus Free Speech Machine 1. The Donor Strategy 2. The Student Groups 3. The Provocateurs 4. The Media Amplifiers 5. The Lawyers 6. Changing the Laws 7. The Academics 8. The Free Speech International Conclusion: Refusing the Plutocratic Free Speech Narrative Appendix 1: Koch Network Payments to Organizations Mentioned in the Text Appendix 2: Resources for Activists Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBetween 1925 and 1945 thousands of ordinary Germans of both sexes and all ages wrote letters to Hitler. Lost for decades, a large cache of these letters was recently discovered in the KGB Special Archive in Moscow, having been carted off to Russia by the Soviet Secret Police at the end of the war. The letters range from gushing love letters - 'I love you so much. Write to me, please,' this from a seven-year old girl named Gina - to letters from teachers, students, priests, businessmen and others expressing gratitude for alleviating poverty or restoring dignity to the German people. There are a few protest letters and the occasional desperate plea to release a loved one from a concentration camp, but the overwhelming majority are positive and even rapturous, shedding fresh light on the nature of the Hitler cult in Nazi Germany. This volume is the first publication of these letters in English. It comprises a selection of the letters and includes a contextualizing commentary that exTrade Review"A valuable addition to the available sources. There is also a lot here for the general reader: the letters are often surprising in tone and content, and sometimes funny."Literary Review"A historic gem ... Eberle's work is an interesting but chilling case study on how a seemingly educated and mature society can be manipulated to the point of blind fanaticism."Morning Star"Sheds a whole new light on life under the Nazis."Daily Express"An excellent example of the increased drive to portray history from the ordinary, everyday people - if that's what Hitler's followers could be called."Review 31"A history of the Third Reich at its most personal and individual; from the fawning letters of sycophants to desperate pleas for clemency from both active opponents and innocents swept up in terror ... an excellent book."The Australian"The letters have, like something from a Hans Fallada novel, the stamp of grimy, gritty truth."The Age"Gripping evidence on the relationship between Hitler and some ordinary Germans."Australian Journal of Politics and History"A unique and captivating view of one nation's devotion to its dictator."Deseret News"This collection of letters to Hitler from ordinary Germans is full of fascinating and sometimes disturbing testimonies to the charismatic power of the Nazi dictator. It adds notably to our knowledge of the German people's attitudes towards the Third Reich and its policies."Richard J Evans, University of Cambridge "This collection of letters to Hitler provides unique and fascinating insights into the social-psychological climate of the times. Here published for the first time in English, the long-lost letters from ordinary citizens read like voices from the past. Perhaps most strikingly they reveal loyalties to and support for a dictator and a regime we are still struggling to understand."Robert Gellately, author of Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi GermanyTable of ContentsIntroduction by Victoria Harris PART ONE: The ‘Time of Struggle': 1924-1932 1. Hitler and the Nazi Party 2. Veneration and Advice 3. Wishes for the New Year 4. Rage and Hope PART TWO: Worship, Protest and Consent: 1933-1938 1. Recognition, Gratitude, and Veneration 2. Private Petitions and Political Requests 3. Dissent 4. Expressions of Loyalty 5. The Highpoint of Hitler's Popularity PART THREE: Crisis and War: 1938-1945 1. Jubilation and Concern 2. The Calm Before the Storm 3. At War 4. The End Suggestions for further reading

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Book SynopsisWhat attracts women to far-right movements that appear to denigrate their rights? This question has vexed feminist scholars for decades and has led to many lively debates in the academy. In this context, during the 1980s, the study of women, gender, and fascism in twentieth-century Europe took off, pioneered by historians such as Claudia Koonz and Victoria de Grazia.

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Book SynopsisThe Ustasha regime and its militias carried out a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing that killed an estimated half million Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, and ended only with the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II. In Visions of Annihilation, Rory Yeomans analyses the Ustasha movement’s use of culture to appeal to radical nationalist sentiments and legitimize its genocidal policies.

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Book SynopsisInterpreting the Nazi era using the basic diagnostic tools provided by the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, Judaeo-Christian culture, and contemporary German-language writers, this book provides an alternative approach to the topic of the individual German's entanglement with the Hitler regime.Trade Review[In Hitler and the Germans] the reader feels the academic hall come to life with Voegelin's eloquence and the profundity of his mind. Voegelin speaks with passion and deadly irony....Hitler and the Germans is not simply a scholarly historical analysis of an extremely unpleasant event. Voegelin writes as a philosophic German to philosophic Germans, because he takes them seriously....[He] has brilliantly illuminated the depths and meaning of that ideology and tyranny for our abiding benefit in thought and action. - Perspectives on Political Science

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Book SynopsisFeatures essays that brings together contributions by internationally recognised scholars from Britain, Germany and the USA to present and reflect upon the research on the history of the Third Reich. This book provides a fresh approach to the history of Nazism's racial policy, its social policy, its planning for war and genocide, and its legacy.Trade ReviewNazism, War and Genocide will be essential reading for students of the period. Richard Evans, BBC History * BBC History *Taken together, the essays presented in this collection do a splendid job of summarising and criticising the state of our knowledge of the field they cover. All are further characterised by a very accessible style and great readability... this book is an ideal way for undergraduates, graduate students, lay people or specialists in other fields to quickly learn the essentials of our current knowledge of some of the central issues surrounding the history of the Third Reich. Bruce B. Campbell, H-German * H-German *Table of Contents Introduction to the paperback edition List of common German abbreviations used in the text 1 Neil Gregor Nazism-A Political Religion? Rethinking the Voluntarist Turn 2 Jane Caplan Political Detention and the Origin of the Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany, 1933-1935/6 3 Dick Geary Working-Class Identities in the Third Reich 4 Robert Gellately Social Outsiders and the Consolidation of Hitler's Dictatorship, 1933-1939 5 Nikolaus Wachsmann 'Soldiers of the Home Front': Jurists and Legal Terror during the Second World War 6 Jill Stephenson Germans, Slavs and the Burden of Work in Rural Southern Germany during the Second World War 7 Ian Kershaw Did Hitler Miss his Chance in 1940? 8 Mark Roseman Shoot First and Ask Questions Afterwards? Wannsee and the Unfolding of the Final Solution 9 Norbert Frei Auschwitz and the Germans: History, Knowledge and Memory Notes List of Contributors Suggestions for further reading Index

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Book SynopsisA Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third Reich For its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructive regimes in the history of humankind. Since that time, scholarly debate about its causes has volleyed continuously between the effects of political and military decisions, pathological development, or modernity gone awry. Was terror the defining force of rule, or was popular consent critical to sustaining the movement? Were the German people sympathetic to Nazi ideology, or were they radicalized by social manipulation and powerful propaganda? Was the Final Solution the motivation for the Third Reich's rise to power, or simply the outcome? A Companion to Nazi Germany addresses these crucial questions with historical insight from the Nazi Party's emergence in the 1920s through its postwar repercussions. From the theory and context that gave rise to the movement, through its structural, cultural, economic, and social impacts, to the era's Trade Review“Overall this is a rich and stimulating essay companion, well worth dipping into as an introduction to state-of-the-art scholarship, and with a remarkable amount to offer for university teachers and students taking modules on this period.”Reviewer: Matthew Stibbe, Sheffield Hallam University, UKEuropean History Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 1Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction 1Shelley Baranowski, Armin Nolzen, and Claus‐Christian W. Szejnmann Part I Theories, Background, and Contexts 15 1 How Do We Explain the Rise of Nazism? Theory and Historiography 17Geoff Eley 2 Organic Modernity: National Socialism as Alternative Modernism 33Konrad H. Jarausch 3 The First World War and National Socialism 47Benjamin Ziemann 4 The Collapse of the Weimar Parliamentary System 63Shelley Baranowski 5 National Socialist Ideology 77Claus‐Christian W. Szejnmann Part II Structures of Nazi Rule 95 6 The NSDAP After 1933: Members, Positions, Technologies, Interactions 97Armin Nolzen 7 Work(ers) Under the Swastika 115Jens‐Uwe Guettel 8 Resistance 129Detlef Schmiechen‐Ackermann 9 Centre and Periphery 147Thomas Schaarschmidt 10 Information Policies and Linguistic Violence 163Thomas Pegelow Kaplan 11 Education, Schooling, and Camps 181Kiran Klaus Patel 12 Research and Scholarship 199Michael Gruttner 13 Nazi Morality 215Thomas Kuhne 14 The German Home Front Under the Bombs 231Richard Overy 15 Total Defeat: War, Society, and Violence in the Last Year of National Socialism 247Sven Keller Part III Economy and Culture 263 16 The Nazi Economy 265Stephen G. Gross 17 National Socialism and German Business 281Kim Christian Priemel 18 Individual Consumers and Consumption in Nazi Germany 299Pamela E. Swett 19 Gender 315Elizabeth Harvey 20 Religion 333Manfred Gailus 21 Family and Private Life 351Lisa Pine 22 Sports 367Frank Becker 23 Cinema, Art, and Music 385Daniel Muhlenfeld 24 Emotions and National Socialism 399Alexandra Przyrembel 25 Environment 413Charles E. Closmann Part IV Race, Imperialism, and Genocide 429 26 Terror 431Dieter Pohl 27 Flight and Exile 449Deborah Dwork 28 Germany and the Outside World 465Lars Ludicke 29 Social Militarization and Preparation for War, 1933–1939 483Jorg Echternkamp 30 Race 499Isabel Heinemann 31 Unfree and Forced Labour 517Marc Buggeln 32 ‘Ethnic Germans’ 533Alexa Stiller 33 Ghettos 551Andrea Low 34 Holocaust Studies: The Spatial Turn 565Wendy Lower Part V Legacies of Nazism 581 35 Memories of Nazi Germany in the Federal Republic of Germany 583Aleida Assmann 36 Remembering National Socialism in the German Democratic Republic 599David Clarke 37 Presenting and Teaching the Past 615Karl Heinrich Pohl and Astrid Schwabe Index 631

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Book SynopsisFascism, Architecture, and the Claiming of Modern Milan, 1922–1943 chronicles the dramatic architectural and urban transformation of Milan during the nearly twenty years of fascist rule. The commercial and financial centre of Italy and the birthplace of fascism, Milan played a central role in constructing fascism’s national image and identity as it advanced from a revolutionary movement to an established state power.Using a wide range of archival sources, Lucy M. Maulsby analyses the public buildings, from the relatively modest party headquarters to the grandiose Palace of Justice and the Palazzo del Popolo d’Italia, through which Mussolini intended to enhance the city’s image and solidify fascism’s presence in Milan. Maulsby establishes the extent to which Milan’s economic structure, social composition, and cultural orientation affected Il Duce’s plans for the city, demonstrating the inflTrade Review"Thorough, rich, and compelling, Architecture, Fascism, and the Claiming of Modern Milan lifts the discussion about architecture under fascism from the narrow confines of the public polemics of architects and carries it into the far more complex and nuanced world of politics." -- Diane Ghirardo School of Architecture, University of Southern California 'This is an interesting and well documented book...It will be of great interest to historians of architecture, fascism, urban Italy and Milan, as well as to the general reader.' -- John Foot Annali d'Italianistica Vol 33:2015Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Milan in Context 2. Respectable Fascism: Fascist Party Headquarters, 1922-1931 3. The Commercial City: The Trading Exchange and Piazza degli Affari, 1928-1939 4. Fascist Authority: The Palace of Justice, 1932-1940 5. Urban Networks: Fascist Party Headquarters, 1931-1940 6. Museum, Monument, and Memorial: The Palazzo del Popolo d'Italia, 1938-1942 Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSpanish Fascist Writing presents the first collection of Spanish fascist texts in English translation and offers an intellectual and political history of fascist writing in Spain, a history that resituates the country within the larger unfolding of right-wing extremism worldwide from the early twentieth century to the present. The manifestos, newspaper articles, essays, letters, and pieces of prose fiction gathered in this volume demonstrate why the Spanish case proves essential to a comprehensive understanding of fascism in general. These Spanish fascist texts also highlight the need for comparative analysis in order to better grasp the transnational character of fascism, fascism’s profound roots in colonialism, fascism’s multiple temporalities, and the rise in recent years of right-wing extremism throughout the world. In short, Spanish Fascist Writing takes Spain from the margins to the forefront of fascist studies. Trade Review"Spanish Fascist Writing is a timely collection of texts, including manifestos, speeches, and letters, arranged to introduce readers to a wide spectrum of themes. Together these texts enrich our understanding of right-wing extremism in Spain and worldwide in the past and present. The collection also adds to our interpretation of the historical genealogies of European fascism. Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez, as editors of the anthology, provide a useful history of Spanish fascism, a bibliographic essay, and notes, all of which add to the book’s value as a teaching resource. As translators, with María Soledad Barbón, they are aware of the rhetoric of this particular manifestation of fascism and thus are careful to convey the nuances and stylistic idiosyncrasies of every text." -- MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature CommitteeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Translators’ Note General Introduction Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez Spanish Fascist Writing: A Brief History A Bibliographic Essay This Anthology Section One: Manifestos and Political Programs On Italy’s Essence: A Letter to a Comrade from the Young Spain Ernesto Giménez Caballero Our Political Manifesto La Conquista del Estado Our Slogans – Armed Mobilization La Conquista del Estado Castile’s Mission Onésimo Redondo Castile, Save Spain! Onésimo Redondo The Future of Our People: National Syndicalism José María de Areilza Founding Speech of Falange Española José Antonio Primo de Rivera Initial Points Falange Española The Programmatic Points of Falange Española de las JONS Falange Española de las JONS Unity of Destiny Anonymous The Social Revolution of National Syndicalism José Luis de Arrese On Spanish Catholicity Eugenio Montes Joint Manifesto of Spain on the Move La España en Marcha Section Two: Nation and Empire Genius of Spain Ernesto Giménez Caballero In Defense of Hispanidad Ramiro de Maeztu The Spanish Empire Antonio Tovar Trajectory and Future Prospects of Our Territorial Expansion José María Cordero Torres A National Objective Manuel Fraga Iribarne Section Three: The New Man and the New Woman The Individual Is Dead Ramiro Ledesma Ramos Habit and Style Anonymous Guidelines Anonymous Femininity and the Falange José Antonio Primo de Rivera Eugenio, or, The Proclamation of Spring Rafael García Serrano The Faith and Conduct of Women Pilar Primo de Rivera Women and the Education of Children Mercedes Sanz Bachiller Blue Shirt: A Portrait of a Falangist Felipe Ximénez de Sandoval Mission and Organization of the S.F. (Sección Femenina) Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS Section Four: Violence and War The African Campaign: A Welcome to the Soldiers of Garellano Rafael Sánchez Mazas The Legionary Creed José Millán-Astray Moroccan Notes of a Soldier Ernesto Giménez Caballero Behind the Caesar’s Eagle Luys Santa Marina Young Spaniards! A Call to Arms! Ramiro Ledesma Ramos The Monopoly of Violence Onésimo Redondo Justification of Violence Onésimo Redondo Violence and Justice José Antonio Primo de Rivera The Conquest of the State Anonymous Russia Notebooks Dionisio Ridruejo Section Five: Culture, Aesthetics, and Poetics Art and State Ernesto Giménez Caballero Beautiful Architecture of the Ruins Agustín de Foxá Texts on a Politics of Art Rafael Sánchez Mazas General Proposal for City Planning in Madrid Pedro Bidagor Inauguration of the Valley of the Fallen Francisco Franco Index

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Book SynopsisBuilding on extensive archival research and important scholarly analysis, Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender examines the life of Galeazzo Ciano, foreign minister of fascist Italy from 1936 to 1943 and Benito Mussolini’s son-in-law. Ciano’s life serves as a lens through which to gain a better understanding of crucial issues of Italian and European fascism, including the fascistization of society and politics, foreign relations, and the problem of succession. The biography follows an innovative thematic structure that focuses on major aspects of Ciano’s life, including his family, his political career, his diplomacy, and his desire to succeed Mussolini. Filling a substantial gap in the existing literature on the history of fascism, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of a key player of Italian fascism other than Mussolini; it also offers a long overdue critical assessment of Ciano’s famous diary, one of the most important texts fTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Family The Son of a Hero The Ciano Family in Livorno Ciano’s Friends The Fascist Family Shaping Italian Society 2. The Politician The Minister The Fascist The Elite The Catholic and Monarchist The Fascist Oligarchy 3. The Diplomat Italy’s Role in the World Diplomacy and Performance Parallel and Secret Diplomacy Blackmail, Terror, and War Assessing Fascist Italy’s Foreign Diplomacy 4. The Successor The Deputy Duce Fascist Masculinities: Ciano versus Mussolini The Undecided One The “Good Fascist” Succession and Struggle in Fascism Epilogue: A Man of His Time Appendix Chronology Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSpanish Fascist Writing presents the first collection of Spanish fascist texts in English translation and offers an intellectual and political history of fascist writing in Spain, a history that resituates the country within the larger unfolding of right-wing extremism worldwide from the early twentieth century to the present. The manifestos, newspaper articles, essays, letters, and pieces of prose fiction gathered in this volume demonstrate why the Spanish case proves essential to a comprehensive understanding of fascism in general. These Spanish fascist texts also highlight the need for comparative analysis in order to better grasp the transnational character of fascism, fascism’s profound roots in colonialism, fascism’s multiple temporalities, and the rise in recent years of right-wing extremism throughout the world. In short, Spanish Fascist Writing takes Spain from the margins to the forefront of fascist studies. Trade Review"Spanish Fascist Writing is a timely collection of texts, including manifestos, speeches, and letters, arranged to introduce readers to a wide spectrum of themes. Together these texts enrich our understanding of right-wing extremism in Spain and worldwide in the past and present. The collection also adds to our interpretation of the historical genealogies of European fascism. Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez, as editors of the anthology, provide a useful history of Spanish fascism, a bibliographic essay, and notes, all of which add to the book’s value as a teaching resource. As translators, with María Soledad Barbón, they are aware of the rhetoric of this particular manifestation of fascism and thus are careful to convey the nuances and stylistic idiosyncrasies of every text." -- MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature CommitteeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Translators’ Note General Introduction Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez Spanish Fascist Writing: A Brief History A Bibliographic Essay This Anthology Section One: Manifestos and Political Programs On Italy’s Essence: A Letter to a Comrade from the Young Spain Ernesto Giménez Caballero Our Political Manifesto La Conquista del Estado Our Slogans – Armed Mobilization La Conquista del Estado Castile’s Mission Onésimo Redondo Castile, Save Spain! Onésimo Redondo The Future of Our People: National Syndicalism José María de Areilza Founding Speech of Falange Española José Antonio Primo de Rivera Initial Points Falange Española The Programmatic Points of Falange Española de las JONS Falange Española de las JONS Unity of Destiny Anonymous The Social Revolution of National Syndicalism José Luis de Arrese On Spanish Catholicity Eugenio Montes Joint Manifesto of Spain on the Move La España en Marcha Section Two: Nation and Empire Genius of Spain Ernesto Giménez Caballero In Defense of Hispanidad Ramiro de Maeztu The Spanish Empire Antonio Tovar Trajectory and Future Prospects of Our Territorial Expansion José María Cordero Torres A National Objective Manuel Fraga Iribarne Section Three: The New Man and the New Woman The Individual Is Dead Ramiro Ledesma Ramos Habit and Style Anonymous Guidelines Anonymous Femininity and the Falange José Antonio Primo de Rivera Eugenio, or, The Proclamation of Spring Rafael García Serrano The Faith and Conduct of Women Pilar Primo de Rivera Women and the Education of Children Mercedes Sanz Bachiller Blue Shirt: A Portrait of a Falangist Felipe Ximénez de Sandoval Mission and Organization of the S.F. (Sección Femenina) Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS Section Four: Violence and War The African Campaign: A Welcome to the Soldiers of Garellano Rafael Sánchez Mazas The Legionary Creed José Millán-Astray Moroccan Notes of a Soldier Ernesto Giménez Caballero Behind the Caesar’s Eagle Luys Santa Marina Young Spaniards! A Call to Arms! Ramiro Ledesma Ramos The Monopoly of Violence Onésimo Redondo Justification of Violence Onésimo Redondo Violence and Justice José Antonio Primo de Rivera The Conquest of the State Anonymous Russia Notebooks Dionisio Ridruejo Section Five: Culture, Aesthetics, and Poetics Art and State Ernesto Giménez Caballero Beautiful Architecture of the Ruins Agustín de Foxá Texts on a Politics of Art Rafael Sánchez Mazas General Proposal for City Planning in Madrid Pedro Bidagor Inauguration of the Valley of the Fallen Francisco Franco Index

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Book SynopsisMillions passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism, but they are sceptical of traditional leftist top-down state solutions. In this urgent polemic, Hilary Wainwright argues that this requires a new politics for the left that comes from the bottom up, based on participatory democracy and the everyday knowledge and creativity of each individual. Political leadership should be about facilitation and partnership, not expert domination or paternalistic rule. Wainwright uses lessons from recent movements and experiments to build a radical future vision that will be an inspiration for activists and radicals everywhere.Trade Review"Hilary Wainwright has been at the centre of social movement politics stretching back to the exciting days of the GLC. Her book is a significant contribution to the vital transformation of the Labour Party into a social movement once again."—John McDonnell MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer "A New Politics from the Left presents a thorough, convincing and inspiring programme for progressive politics in Britain today."—Jeremy Gilbert, University of East London "In succinct, eloquent prose, A New Politics from the Left encompasses all that Hilary Wainwright has learned from her efforts to connect the buoyant creativity of grass roots politics with the coalitions necessary to build genuinely democratic societies."—Lynne Segal, Birkbeck College "This book is reminder of why Hilary Wainwright is one of contemporary British socialism's most perceptive and thoughtful writers.... We live in exciting and hopeful times and this book goes some way to explaining why."—Morning StarTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: A New Politics of Knowledge Chapter 2: The New Politics in Practice Chapter 3: From Cells to Transitions Chapter 4: Conclusions: on Questions of Political Strategy and Organisation Further reading and resources

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Book SynopsisMillions passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism, but they are sceptical of traditional leftist top-down state solutions. In this urgent polemic, Hilary Wainwright argues that this requires a new politics for the left that comes from the bottom up, based on participatory democracy and the everyday knowledge and creativity of each individual. Political leadership should be about facilitation and partnership, not expert domination or paternalistic rule. Wainwright uses lessons from recent movements and experiments to build a radical future vision that will be an inspiration for activists and radicals everywhere.Trade Review"Hilary Wainwright has been at the centre of social movement politics stretching back to the exciting days of the GLC. Her book is a significant contribution to the vital transformation of the Labour Party into a social movement once again."—John McDonnell MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer "A New Politics from the Left presents a thorough, convincing and inspiring programme for progressive politics in Britain today."—Jeremy Gilbert, University of East London "In succinct, eloquent prose, A New Politics from the Left encompasses all that Hilary Wainwright has learned from her efforts to connect the buoyant creativity of grass roots politics with the coalitions necessary to build genuinely democratic societies."—Lynne Segal, Birkbeck College "This book is reminder of why Hilary Wainwright is one of contemporary British socialism's most perceptive and thoughtful writers.... We live in exciting and hopeful times and this book goes some way to explaining why."—Morning StarTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: A New Politics of Knowledge Chapter 2: The New Politics in Practice Chapter 3: From Cells to Transitions Chapter 4: Conclusions: on Questions of Political Strategy and Organisation Further reading and resources

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Book SynopsisThe world faces a climate crisis and an ascendant far right. Are these trends related? How does the far right think about the environment, and what openings does the coming crisis present for them? This incisive new book traces the long history of far-right environmentalism and explores how it is adapting to the contemporary world. It argues that the extreme right, after years of denying the reality of climate change, are now showing serious signs of reversing their strategy. A new generation of far-right activists has realized that impending environmental catastrophe represents their best chance yet for a return to relevance. In reality, however, their noxious blend of conspiracy, hatred and violence is no solution at all: it is the ‘eco-socialism of fools’. Only a real commitment to climate justice can save us and stop the far right in its tracks. No-one interested in the struggle against right-wing extremism and the crusade for climate justice can afford to miss this trenchant critique of burgeoning ecofascism.Trade Review“An urgent and comprehensive survey of the risks generated by the nature politics of today's far right – and how to fight them.”Paul Mason, author of How to Stop Fascism “Since the attacks in Christchurch and El Paso in 2019, public discussion of ecofascism has become more urgent than ever. This book adds substantially to our understanding of a challenging subject through critical examination of rapidly evolving environmental politics on the far right.”Peter Staudenmaier, co-author of Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience “Essential reading for anyone concerned with politics in a warming world.”Andreas Malm, co-author of White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism“The book ranges widely […], from individual terrorists and the fringes of the internet to main stream political parties.”Adam Weymouth, Resurgence & Ecologist“a captivating and important read.”International AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. A History of Far-Right Ecologism 2. The far right and nature now 3. Online far-right ecologism and far-right movements 4. Deadly Ecofascist Violence 5. Towards Ecofascism Proper? Notes

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Book SynopsisAs historians have long noted, public oratory has seldom been as pivotal in generating and sustaining the vitality of a movement as it was during the rise and rule of the National Socialist Party, from 1919 to 1945. Led by the charismatic and indefatigable Hitler, National Socialists conducted one of the most powerful rhetorical campaigns ever recorded. Indeed, the mass addresses, which were broadcast live on radio, taped for re-broadcast, and in many cases filmed for play on theater newsreels throughout the Third Reich, constituted one of the most thorough exploitations of media in history.Because such evil lay at the heart of the National Socialist movement, its overwhelming rhetoric has often been negatively characterized as propaganda. As Randall Bytwerk points out, however, the ""propaganda"" label was anything but negative in the minds of the leaders of the National Socialist movement. In their view, the clear, simplistic, and even one-sided presentation of information was necessary to mobilize effectively all elements of the German population into the National Socialist program.Gathered here are thirteen key speeches of this historically significant movement, including Hitler's announcement of the party's reestablishment in 1925 following the unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch, four addresses by Joseph Goebbels, the 1938 Kristallnacht speech by Julius Streicher, and four speeches drafted as models for party leaders' use on various public occasions. The volume concludes with Adolf Hitler's final public address on January 30, 1945, three months before his suicide. Several of these works are presented for the first time in English translation.Bytwerk provides a brief introduction to each speech and allows the reader to trace the development and downfall of the Nazi party. ""Landmark Speeches of National Socialism"" is an important volume for students of rhetoric, World War II, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents two systems of censorship and literary promotion, revealing how literature can be molded to support authoritarian regimes. The issue is complex in that at a descriptive level the strategies and methods "new states" use to control communication through the written word can be judged by how and when formal decrees were issued, and how publishing media, whether in the form of publishing companies or at the individual level, engaged with political overseers. But equally, literature was a means of resistance against an authoritarian regime, not only for writers but for readers as well. From the point of view of historical memory and intellectual history, stories of "people without history" and the production of their texts through the literary "underground" can be constructed from subsequent testimony: from books sold in secret, to the writings of women in jail, to books that were written but never published or distributed in any way, and to myriad compelling circumstances resulting from living under fascist authority. A parallel study on two fascist movements provides a unique viewpoint at literary, social and political levels. Comparative analysis of literary censorship/literary reward allows an understanding of the balance between dictatorship, official policy, and what literary acts were deemed acceptable. The regime need to control its population is revealed in the ways that a particular type of literature was encouraged; in the engagement of propoganda promotion; and in the setting up of institutions to gain international acceptance of the regime. The work is an important contribution to the history of twentieth-century authoritarianism and the development fascist ideas.

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Book SynopsisThis work makes an original and important contribution both to the field of British fascist/extreme Right studies and to the Ulster question. Given that British fascism was a phenomenon of the inter-war period, first making its appearance shortly after the Irish question had been constitutionally settled by the creation of the Irish Free State and the autonomous entity of Northern Ireland, it has been understandable that British historians should focus chiefly on developments in Britain. In the process, however, Northern Ireland as a site of fascist interest and activity has been largely overlooked; yet it engaged the attention of all the significant fascist movements, from Rotha Lintorn-Orman’s British Fascists and Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists to the less significant Imperial Fascist League in the inter-war period, Mosley’s Union Movement in the post-war period and the National Front and British National Party during the period of the Troubles, together with smaller formations thereafter. In focusing on Northern Ireland, this study provides insights into the strengths and weaknesses of British fascist organisations throughout the twentieth century. It also demonstrates that the region was an extremely difficult terrain for those organisations to cultivate, whether they were supportive of nationalism/republicanism or Unionism/loyalism.Trade ReviewReviews ‘[A] lively and stimulating survey… This saga is expertly detailed by Loughlin, whose focus on Enoch Powell indicates one route to far-right success in the North: become a unionist.’ Niall Meehan, History Ireland 'Very well-researched and well-written, this is an original study that breaks new ground.' Professor Nigel Copsey, Teesside University'Building upon his established expertise on Ulster political history, Loughlin examines the succession of far-right parties with roots in Britain.... [He] explores the fascinating dynamic between Mosleyite appeals to Catholic communities in Britain and analysis of the north'James Greer, Irish Historical Studies 'This is a comprehensive, well-written and lively account of the British far-right's interest in Northern Ireland [discussing] organisations such as the British Fascists, the Ulster Fascists, the Union Movement, the National Front, the British National Party and Combat-18. [Loughlin's] fine book… makes useful reading for anyone observing the emergence of… toxic politics in Ireland today.'Brian Hanley, Saothar‘[Fascism and Constitutional Conflict] corrects simplistic assessments of the relationship between British fascism and Northern Ireland. In bridging these discrete historiographies, Loughlin has provided an original and valuable contribution to both.’ English Historical Review'Loughlin raises critical questions about what fascist movements are, the sources of their ideas and why they succeed and fail in attempts to take and influence power. Fascism and Constitutional Conflict is a fresh perspective on them.' Carlus Hudson, HistoryTable of ContentsAbbreviations Preface Introduction: Ulster and the Context of British Fascism PART I: ULSTER AND FASCISM IN THE INTER-WAR PERIOD 1 Rotha Lintorn-Orman, Ulster and the British Fascists 2 The BUF: (I) The Ulster Question in Blackshirt Perspective 3 The BUF: (II) The Ulster Fascists PART II: MID-CENTURY MOSLEYISM AND NORTHERN IRELAND 4 Union Movement: Exploiting the Partition Issue 1946-66 PART III: NEO-FASCISM AND THE NORTHERN IRELAND CONFLICT 5 Northern Ireland: The Mosley and Powell Perspectives 6 The National Front :(I) Negotiating the Ulster Political Terrain 1967-85 7 The National Front: (II) Combating the Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985-90 8 The BNP: Neo-Fascism in a Context of Political Agreement Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role played by the Female Section of the Spanish Fascist Party (Seccion Femenina de la Falange -- SF) in promoting women's political and professional rights within the authoritarian Franco regime in Spain. While acknowledging the organisational and financial ties, as well as the great ideological affinity between the SF and the regime, Inbal Ofer demonstrates how the SF's national leadership promoted an autonomous social and political agenda. Despite the need to constantly manoeuvre between the cultural and legal dictates of Francoist society, the unique activities and personal experiences of SF members at the heart of political power became a model for an array of policies and reforms that greatly improved the lives of Spanish women. From a unique gender perspective the topic of the Seccion Femenina de la Falange contributes to the debate on the nature of authoritarian regimes by reflecting on issues of policy formation and implementation; mass mobilisation; and the role of coercion alongside the creation of a "culture of consent". In exchange for a long-term commitment to the survival of the regime, both the Catholic Church and the Spanish Falange gained considerable administrative power and a measure of freedom to act on political and social matters. As explained, the promotion of women's legal and political equality (reflected in the struggle to amend the Civil Code and ratify the Law for Political and Professional Rights) is a good example of the way organs within the "regime" made use of their position in order to legitimise non-consensual forms of activism. The SF efforts to increase the number of gainfully employed women and improve their working-conditions is an example of the unexpected uses made by agents of the "regime" of the freedom of action accorded them in the public arena. Inbal Ofer raises questions regarding the nature of women's political activism and capacity for autonomous action within authoritarian regimes, setting out the debate on the nature of feminism and its relation to female activism and the promotion of women as a collective. More specifically she engages with those works that critically evaluate women's public contribution within Catholic and / or nationalist settings, and is required reading for interested in the history of modern Europe.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Prologue: The Birth of a Female Political Elite; Nurses & Students: Education, Professional Training & the Civil War Experience in the Shaping of Two Generations of Leadership; The National Syndicalist Woman: The Genealogy of a Gender Identity; Bridging the Gap between Elitist & Mass Politics: Gender Legislation of the Seccion Femenina de la FET; Am I that Body? Seccion Femenina de la FET & the Struggle for the Institution of Physical Education & Competitive Sports for Women; Conclusions; Index.

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Book SynopsisSpain's first democracy was announced to popular jubilation in April 1931, a new dawn ushered in without a single shot being fired. Yet just over five years later the country was plunged into a brutal civil war that bequeathed hundreds of thousands of deaths and an authoritarian dictatorship under General Francisco Franco that lasted almost forty years. This book analyses Spain's dramatic political shift, reassessing the role of the right as it mobilised against the Second Republic, swinging from ostensibly "moderate" Catholic conservatism to fascist violence. By providing the first detailed study of the uniformed, paramilitary Juventud de Accion Popular (JAP), Sid Lowe challenges the historiographical orthodoxy on Spanish fascism and assumptions about the role of the hegemonic right-wing party during the Republican years, Jose Maria Gil Robles's CEDA. Drawing on a wide range of previously uncovered primary material, he demonstrates that much of the parliamentary right, its leadership included, abandoned the legal road to power when it could no longer use democracy as a Trojan Horse with which to conquer the state. It throws vital new light on the conspiracy to destroy the Republic, the Nationalist war effort, the creation of the new state, and the true social and political origins of the Franco regime. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.Trade Review"Dr Lowe fuses social and political analysis to demonstrate how, at the grass roots of Spanish society, the political culture of the long-lived Franco dictatorship was crucially instigated by the radical, mass Catholic youth movement, JAP. Lowe's originality lies in the fact that his analysis pinpoints the moment and demonstrates the mechanism by which radical Catholics in Spain became fascists. In doing this he has cut the gordian knot that inhibits much of the conventional historiography on the Spanish Catholic right during the 1930s." -- Helen Graham, Dept. of History, Royal Holloway University of LondonTable of ContentsGlossary & Abbreviations; Introduction: 'Immense shame, physical repugnance': Responding to the Republic (The Spanish Right & the JAP After 1931); 'The youth of the new Spain': The Crusade to Save the Fatherland (The JAP until October 1934); 'An iron fist against the anti-Spain': Bringing in the New State (The JAP from October 1934 to December 1935); 'To win or to die': The General Elections (The JAP from December 1935 to February 1936); 'We'll become Nazis if we have to': The Ominous Spring (The JAP from February to July 1936); 'Selfless auxiliaries, enthusiastic servants': Joining the Rising (The JAP from July to December 1936); 'Militias of sacrifice': The Crusade for God, Spain & the New State (The JAP at war until April 1937); Conclusion: 'A magnificent harvest': The Destruction of Democracy in Spain (The JAP, the Right & Fascism from 1931 to 1937); Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role played by the Female Section of the Spanish Fascist Party (Seccion Femenina de la Falange -- SF) in promoting women's political and professional rights within the authoritarian Franco regime in Spain. While acknowledging the organisational and financial ties, as well as the great ideological affinity between the SF and the regime, Inbal Ofer demonstrates how the SF's national leadership promoted an autonomous social and political agenda. Despite the need to constantly manoeuvre between the cultural and legal dictates of Francoist society, the unique activities and personal experiences of SF members at the heart of political power became a model for an array of policies and reforms that greatly improved the lives of Spanish women. From a unique gender perspective the topic of the Seccion Femenina de la Falange contributes to the debate on the nature of authoritarian regimes by reflecting on issues of policy formation and implementation; mass mobilisation; and the role of coercion alongside the creation of a "culture of consent". In exchange for a long-term commitment to the survival of the regime, both the Catholic Church and the Spanish Falange gained considerable administrative power and a measure of freedom to act on political and social matters. As explained, the promotion of women's legal and political equality (reflected in the struggle to amend the Civil Code and ratify the Law for Political and Professional Rights) is a good example of the way organs within the "regime" made use of their position in order to legitimise non-consensual forms of activism. The SF efforts to increase the number of gainfully employed women and improve their working-conditions is an example of the unexpected uses made by agents of the "regime" of the freedom of action accorded them in the public arena. Inbal Ofer raises questions regarding the nature of women's political activism and capacity for autonomous action within authoritarian regimes, setting out the debate on the nature of feminism and its relation to female activism and the promotion of women as a collective. More specifically she engages with those works that critically evaluate women's public contribution within Catholic and / or nationalist settings, and is required reading for interested in the history of modern Europe.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Prologue: The Birth of a Female Political Elite; Nurses & Students: Education, Professional Training & the Civil War Experience in the Shaping of Two Generations of Leadership; The National Syndicalist Woman: The Genealogy of a Gender Identity; Bridging the Gap between Elitist & Mass Politics: Gender Legislation of the Seccion Femenina de la FET; Am I that Body? Seccion Femenina de la FET & the Struggle for the Institution of Physical Education & Competitive Sports for Women; Conclusions; Index.

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Book SynopsisSpanish by birth, Parisian by adoption, Semprún (1923-2011) was a legendary figure on the front lines of twentieth-century European history. During the first half of his life he was an exile of the Spanish Civil War, a member of the French Resistance, a Nazi camp survivor, and clandestine agent for the Spanish Communist Party. After repeatedly risking his life from the 1930s to the 1960s, he reinvented himself as a prolific writer who turned the extraordinary material from his own life into a series of autobiographical novels, beginning with The Long Voyage, his 1963 masterpiece about his deportation to Buchenwald. Semprún was equally at home amongst the madrileños of his childhood, fellow prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp, politicians, and artists and writers, such as his close friend Yves Montand or Gabriel García Márquez. He is best known internationally as a prize-winning novelist and memoirist, and an Oscar-nominated screenwriter. In collaboration with Alain Resnais and Costa-Gavras he wrote the screenplays for, respectively, La guerre est finie and Z. In Spain, his extraordinary achievements were recognised when in 1988 he was named Minister of Culture. The research for this biography draws on archival materials from Spain, France, Germany, the United States and Russia; it includes many interviews with family members, close friends, politicians, and artists including former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González, and film director Costa Gavras. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.Trade ReviewAfter reading this lively and intriguing biography, Im amazed that most of us know so little about Jorge Semprun, even though weve likely seen films that he inspired or wrote. This man of great zest, talent and courage who played so many roles in the crises of his timeunderground resister, novelist, cabinet minister and more--reminds me of no one so much as Andre Malraux. Its a pleasure to have his remarkable life now available to us in English. - Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Jorge Semprun packed four or five lives into one. Artist, prisoner, freedom fighter, diplomat, organizer--in his 87 years he quite literally embodied the story of a whole continent. Soledad Fox's superb biography tells his story with clarity, grace, and high style, just as Semprun lived. This is an essential book, biography and history told with novelistic precision. - Jonathan Blitzer, The New YorkerIn this fascinating biography, Soledad Fox demonstrates how Sempruns many lives not only fueled his writing, but also freed him to reinvent them as auto-fiction. No less important, Fox throws the spotlight on a man little known in the English-speaking world whose extraordinary life and literature mirror the multiple traumas of Europes 20th century. - Alan Riding, author of And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris (Knopf)The most complete possible portrait of an intense and complex life, a voyage through the 20th century seen through the eyes of one of Spains most internationally relevant and well-known intellectuals. Andres Seoane, June 6, 2016. El Cultural, El MundoThis is a very well written biography, thoroughly researched, and both passionate and dispassionate at the same time. Highly recommended. - Jose Maria Noguerol, Interviu. September 9, 2016With the precision of a surgeon, Soledad Fox Maurabrings to life the voice of the unforgettable author of Le grand voyage, and former Minister of Culture. - Josep Maria Cortes, Alternativas EconomicasThis is an excellent biography that will be of great interest to all those readers who have been fascinated by the life and writing of Jorge Semprun. Soledad Fox Maura writes respectfully, but without shirking the controversial aspects of Sempruns life. And she brings new facts to light. A good biography is one that transforms its subject into a person made of flesh and blood. The operation may cause certain readers to feel disenchanted. I am sure, however, that for most readers of this biography, the figure of Jorge Semprun will not lose any of its power. What is made clearer than ever is that Semprun had a very difficult life. He risked it on more than one occasion, and he always survived, something which would be unfair to hold against him. He lived intensely, on the front lines of the great upheavals of the European 20th Century. And he then had the talent, the intelligence, and the knowledge to turn the ensemble of his books into one of the most accurate chronicles of the period. What would we know about the Europe we have just left behind without the work of Semprun, Koestler, London, and other survivors? - Agusti Pons, Nuvol, September 26, 2016Professor Soledad Fox Maura has published Ida y vuelta. La vida de Jorge Semprun (Debate), a biography of the former Spanish politician that aims to humanize him and to recover the recognition of his figure in Spain, where he was not always well received.The author, a specialist in history and literature of the Spanish Civil War, struck upon her interest in this personality who was an irresistible Pandoras box.Fox has interviewed nearly fifty people who knew Semprun, and the book has close to 400 footnotes. The author, who met the politician through mutual acquaintances, says that the book required a total commitment on her part, and that she tried to put together the jigsaw puzzle of someone who led multiple lives. - Europa Press, Published in La Vanguardia, May 20, 2016.This biography dives into the secrets and pain of Jorge Semprun. Soledad Fox Maura has published a study that pays special attention to the childhood of the Spanish author and Buchenwald concentration camp survivorHis struggle was full of shadows; Fox unveils, diminishes, or disproves them. - Juan Cruz, El Pais, 11 de mayo, 2016Soledad Fox Mauras biography sheds light on the darker corners of this intellectuals life, and puts words where there was only silence. - Javier Ors, La Razon, may 20, 2016After years of research, Soledad Fox Maura has just published Ida y vuelta: La vida de Jorge Semprun (Debate-Penguin Random House), an up-to-date and complete biography of the Spanish writer, politician, and intellectual. Ida y vuelta offers a panoramic vision of Semprun, a complex figure who constantly played at inventing and reinventing himself; first, by becoming Federico Sanchez, and second, through literature. He turned his life into fiction, and fiction into life. - Anna Maria Iglesia, El Asombrario, El Publico, September 9, 2016This biography by Fox Maura, originally written in Englishis a vindication of Sempruns relevanceIt is also a complement to what he tells in his own books. It fills in the gaps, and contextualizes his own memories. - Sara Barderas, dpa, Sin embargo, Mexico. May 21, 2016Ida y vuelta. La vida de Jorge Semprun is the is the best biography written about Jorge Semprun. It is by Soledad Fox Maura and was published by Debate. - Julia Saez-Angulo, Euromundo Global, June 30, 2016Soledad Fox Mauras exhaustive and excellent researchover five years worthcovers the multifaceted and personal experiences of this emblematic protagonist of the 20th century. She raises a number of crucial questions, and offers many answers, all of which are backed up by primary materials, and an objective outlook. She is precise, inspiring, and her prose is fluid and a pleasure to read. A highly recommended volume, packed with exciting and emotionally charged events. - Jorge de Arco, Andalucia Informacion, 28 de septiembre, 2016.Soledad Fox Maura says that when she reads Jorge Semprun she imagines a Humphrey Bogart-like narrator, an inscrutable hero with his trench coat collar turned up. But in real life nobody is like Bogart, not even SemprunHence this biography. - Luis Alemany, El Mundo, May 22, 2016In this biography, Soledad Fox Maura analyzes the life of this intellectual, who was also Minister of Culture, and who loved Spain more than it loved him - Manel Manchon, Economia Digital, July 1, 2016After reading this lively and intriguing biography, Im amazed that most of us know so little about Jorge Semprun, even though weve likely seen films that he inspired or wrote. This man of great zest, talent and courage who played so many roles in the crises of his timeunderground resister, novelist, cabinet minister and more--reminds me of no one so much as Andre Malraux. Its a pleasure to have his remarkable life now available to us in English. - Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Jorge Semprun packed four or five lives into one. Artist, prisoner, freedom fighter, diplomat, organizer--in his 87 years he quite literally embodied the story of a whole continent. Soledad Fox's superb biography tells his story with clarity, grace, and high style, just as Semprun lived. This is an essential book, biography and history told with novelistic precision. - Jonathan Blitzer, The New YorkerIn this fascinating biography, Soledad Fox demonstrates how Sempruns many lives not only fueled his writing, but also freed him to reinvent them as auto-fiction. No less important, Fox throws the spotlight on a man little known in the English-speaking world whose extraordinary life and literature mirror the multiple traumas of Europes 20th century. - Alan Riding, author of And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris (Knopf)The most complete possible portrait of an intense and complex life, a voyage through the 20th century seen through the eyes of one of Spains most internationally relevant and well-known intellectuals - Andres Seoane, June 6, 2016. El Cultural, El MundoThis is a very well written biography, thoroughly researched, and both passionate and dispassionate at the same time. Highly recommended. - Jose Maria Noguerol, Interviu. September 9, 2016With the precision of a surgeon, Soledad Fox Maurabrings to life the voice of the unforgettable author of Le grand voyage, and former Minister of Culture. - Josep Maria Cortes, Alternativas EconomicasThis is an excellent biography that will be of great interest to all those readers who have been fascinated by the life and writing of Jorge Semprun. Soledad Fox Maura writes respectfully, but without shirking the controversial aspects of Sempruns life. And she brings new facts to light. A good biography is one that transforms its subject into a person made of flesh and blood. The operation may cause certain readers to feel disenchanted. I am sure, however, that for most readers of this biography, the figure of Jorge Semprun will not lose any of its power. What is made clearer than ever is that Semprun had a very difficult life. He risked it on more than one occasion, and he always survived, something which would be unfair to hold against him. He lived intensely, on the front lines of the great upheavals of the European 20th Century. And he then had the talent, the intelligence, and the knowledge to turn the ensemble of his books into one of the most accurate chronicles of the period. What would we know about the Europe we have just left behind without the work of Semprun, Koestler, London, and other survivors? - Agusti Pons, Nuvol, September 26, 2016Professor Soledad Fox Maura has published Ida y vuelta. La vida de Jorge Semprun (Debate), a biography of the former Spanish politician that aims to humanize him and to recover the recognition of his figure in Spain, where he was not always well received.The author, a specialist in history and literature of the Spanish Civil War, struck upon her interest in this personality who was an irresistible Pandoras box.Fox has interviewed nearly fifty people who knew Semprun, and the book has close to 400 footnotes. The author, who met the politician through mutual acquaintances, says that the book required a total commitment on her part, and that she tried to put together the jigsaw puzzle of someone who led multiple lives. - Europa Press, Published in La Vanguardia, May 20, 2016.This biography dives into the secrets and pain of Jorge Semprun. Soledad Fox Maura has published a study that pays special attention to the childhood of the Spanish author and Buchenwald concentration camp survivorHis struggle was full of shadows; Fox unveils, diminishes, or disproves them. - Juan Cruz, El Pais, 11 de mayo, 2016Soledad Fox Mauras biography sheds light on the darker corners of this intellectuals life, and puts words where there was only silence. - Javier Ors, La Razon, may 20, 2016After years of research, Soledad Fox Maura has just published Ida y vuelta: La vida de Jorge Semprun (Debate-Penguin Random House), an up-to-date and complete biography of the Spanish writer, politician, and intellectual. Ida y vuelta offers a panoramic vision of Semprun, a complex figure who constantly played at inventing and reinventing himself; first, by becoming Federico Sanchez, and second, through literature. He turned his life into fiction, and fiction into life. - Anna Maria Iglesia, El Asombrario, El Publico, September 9, 2016This biography by Fox Maura, originally written in Englishis a vindication of Sempruns relevanceIt is also a complement to what he tells in his own books. It fills in the gaps, and contextualizes his own memories. - Sara Barderas, dpa, Sin embargo, Mexico. May 21, 2016Ida y vuelta. La vida de Jorge Semprun is the is the best biography written about Jorge Semprun. It is by Soledad Fox Maura and was published by Debate. - Julia Saez-Angulo, Euromundo Global, June 30, 2016Soledad Fox Mauras exhaustive and excellent researchover five years worthcovers the multifaceted and personal experiences of this emblematic protagonist of the 20th century. She raises a number of crucial questions, and offers many answers, all of which are backed up by primary materials, and an objective outlook. She is precise, inspiring, and her prose is fluid and a pleasure to read. A highly recommended volume, packed with exciting and emotionally charged events. - Jorge de Arco, Andalucia Informacion, 28 de septiembre, 2016.Soledad Fox Maura says that when she reads Jorge Semprun she imagines a Humphrey Bogart-like narrator, an inscrutable hero with his trench coat collar turned up. But in real life nobody is like Bogart, not even SemprunHence this biography. - Luis Alemany, El Mundo, May 22, 2016In this biography, Soledad Fox Maura analyzes the life of this intellectual, who was also Minister of Culture, and who loved Spain more than it loved him - Manel Manchon, Economia Digital, July 1, 2016

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Book SynopsisWhy do dictatorships have elections? Dictatorship and the Electoral Vote analyses the role of elections in two dictatorships that were born in the Era of Fascism but survived up to the 1970s: the Portuguese New State and Francoism. A comparative study of the electoral vote held by both dictatorships is revealing at many organizational and structural levels. The multiple political interactions involved in elections worldwide have been subject to social science scrutiny but rarely encompass historical context. The analysis of the electoral vote held by Iberian dictatorships is uniquely placed to link the two. The issues to hand include: drawing of electoral rolls; evolution of the number of people allowed to vote; candidate selection processes; propaganda methods; impact on the institutional structure of the regime; the socio-political biographies of the candidates; the electoral turnout and final tally; relationship between the central and peripheral authorities of the state; and the viewpoint of regime authorities on the holding of elections. Comparative analysis of all these issues enables a better understanding of the political nature of these dictatorships as well as a comprehensive explanation of the historical roots and evolution of the elections these dictatorship held since 1945. Based on primary archival documents, some of them never previously accessed, the book offers a detailed explanation of how these dictatorships used elections to consolidate their political authority and provides a historical approach that allows placing both countries in the framework of European electoral history and in the history of the political evolution of Iberian dictatorships between the Axis defeat and their breakdown in the mid-seventies.

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Book SynopsisAfter Authority explores the tendency in art cinema to respond to political transition by turning to ambiguity, a system that ideally stems the reemergence of authoritarian logics in art and elsewhere. By comparing films from Italy, Hungary, South Korea, and the United States, this book contends that the aesthetic tradition of ambiguity in art cinema can be traced to post-authoritarian conditions and that it is in the context of a transition away from authoritarianism where art cinema aesthetics become legible. Art cinema, then, can be seen as a mode of cinematic practice that is at its core political, as its constitutive ambiguity finds its roots in the rejection of centralized and hierarchical configurations of authority. Ultimately, After Authority proposes a history of art cinema predicated on the potentials, possibilities, and politics of ambiguity.Trade Review“Confident, convincing, and timely, After Authority is a challenging and provocative work. Highly original, it adds significantly to current debates on cinema and politics.” -- Richard Rushton * author of The Politics of Hollywood Cinema: Popular Film and Contemporary Political Theory *"Kalling Heck makes the provocative claim that there is no apolitical art. More to the point, he affirms the possibility of politics and aesthetics without the determining role of authority. And therein lies the power of his magnificent engagements with the films he discusses: the possibility of a theory of political criticism emergent of the experience and affective dynamics of ambiguity." -- Davide Panagia * author of Rancière’s Sentiments *"The book is well researched and well written, and offers readers a new critical perspective Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAuthority year zero : on Germany year zero The image that waits : on Satantango The end of authority, the end of democracy : on woman on the beach Force, hope, and death : on medium cool Coda : political modernism and the possibility for action

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Book SynopsisAfter Authority explores the tendency in art cinema to respond to political transition by turning to ambiguity, a system that ideally stems the reemergence of authoritarian logics in art and elsewhere. By comparing films from Italy, Hungary, South Korea, and the United States, this book contends that the aesthetic tradition of ambiguity in art cinema can be traced to post-authoritarian conditions and that it is in the context of a transition away from authoritarianism where art cinema aesthetics become legible. Art cinema, then, can be seen as a mode of cinematic practice that is at its core political, as its constitutive ambiguity finds its roots in the rejection of centralized and hierarchical configurations of authority. Ultimately, After Authority proposes a history of art cinema predicated on the potentials, possibilities, and politics of ambiguity.Trade Review“Confident, convincing, and timely, After Authority is a challenging and provocative work. Highly original, it adds significantly to current debates on cinema and politics.” -- Richard Rushton * author of The Politics of Hollywood Cinema: Popular Film and Contemporary Political Theory *"Kalling Heck makes the provocative claim that there is no apolitical art. More to the point, he affirms the possibility of politics and aesthetics without the determining role of authority. And therein lies the power of his magnificent engagements with the films he discusses: the possibility of a theory of political criticism emergent of the experience and affective dynamics of ambiguity." -- Davide Panagia * author of Rancière’s Sentiments *"The book is well researched and well written, and offers readers a new critical perspective Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAuthority year zero : on Germany year zero The image that waits : on Satantango The end of authority, the end of democracy : on woman on the beach Force, hope, and death : on medium cool Coda : political modernism and the possibility for action

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Book SynopsisSobrecogedor testimonio poético de las víctimas del Holocausto a través de 64 poemas de otros tantos autores desaparecidos y que el germanista Michael Moll ha rescatado del olvido para dar testimonio de la barbarie humana, pero también de su entereza.Este libro recoge poesías de víctimas del Holocausto, seres humanos que expresaron sus sentimientos y deseos en las condiciones más angustiosas imaginables: a las puertas de la muerte en cárceles, guetos y campos de concentración o de exterminio. Los 64 poemas que recoge este libro pertenecen a hombres y mujeres, niños, jóvenes y mayores, judíos y gentiles, cuyas vidas y versos fueron arrebatados del olvido por el investigador Michael Moll. De aquel estudio, y junto a Barbara Weiler, surgió esta antología publicada por la editorial Schüren en 2020 y que ahora llega a las manos de los lectores en español.?El secreto de la salvación se llama memoria?, un recordatorio de los destinos individuales afectados por la máquina de exterminio nazi, que los editores nos recuerdan con esta antología de poesía.El volumen presenta una selección de poemas que el germanista Michael Moll ha recopilado en una primera colección sistemática.Son legados personales de prisioneros de los campos de exterminio nacionalsocialistas que escribieron contra el olvido de la terrible inhumanidad que sufrieron."Las estrofas escritas en Buchenwald son instantáneas de la desolación y el horror del encarcelamiento". Stuttgarter Nachrichten"... la implementación poética de los pensamientos finales de las víctimas individuales afecta mucho más directamente que todos los hechos secos..." Rheinpfalz

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Book SynopsisNarración de los días en que Gerhard Boldt empieza a asistir a las reuniones diarias entre Hitler y sus generales, primero en Zossen o la ?Guarida del Lobo? y luego en el búnker de Berlín, hasta escasas horas antes del suicidio del dictador y la caída del III Reich. Refleja la atmósfera opresiva de un régimen con detalles cotidianos como las ratas rondando los pasillos, borracheras desesperadas de los más fieles, los asesinatos de los hijos Goebbels junto a Hitler. El día antes del suicidio de Hitler, Boldt recibe autorización para salir del búnker. Logra cruzar las líneas soviéticas y es detenido por los británicos. En cautiverio escribe en cuadernos sus vivencias, que décadas después dan forma a este testimonio estremecedor que incluye anécdotas y retratos vívidos del entorno nazi: Himmler, Bormann, Keitel, Göring? La obra combina descripción sin aderezos, interés documental y juicio moral, revelando la psicología y arrogancia de los jerarcas nazis.

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a fresh and original collection of primary sources on interwar European fascist movements. These sources reflect new approaches to fascism that emphasise the practical, transnational experience of fascism as a social movement, contextualising ideological statements within the historical moments they were produced.Divided into 18 geographically based chapters, contributors draw together the history of various fascist and right-wing movements, selecting sources that reflect themes such as transnational ties, aesthetics, violence, female activism, and the instrumentalisation of race, gender, and religion. Each chapter provides a chronological, narrative account of movements interspersed with complete primary sources, from political speeches, internal movement circulars and articles, police reports, oral history, songs and music, photographs, artworks, poetry, and anti-fascist sources. The volume as a whole seeks to introduce readers to the diversity of fascistTrade Review"This is an important collection of sources, many available in English for the first time. European Fascist Movements gives the lie to the fascists’ own claims to be unified, well-organised and ideologically rigorous, showing instead how they grew in an ad hoc and reactive fashion, shape-shifting as circumstances demanded."Professor Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, University of London"This book is the product of a unique convergence of experts across the widest possible range of country case studies who have supplied the best of their expertise, not only in terms of framing narratives but also in terms of curating lists of previously unknown to most primary sources …What it also manages to do is to be supremely useful to students of fascism while also acquainting more advanced researchers with sources that they would not have come across before."Professor Aristotle Kallis, Keele UniversityTable of ContentsEuropean Fascist Movements: An Introduction 1. Italy 2. Germany 3. Austria 4. Belgium 5. Britain 6. Croats 7. Finland 8. France 9. Hungary 10. Ireland 11. Latvia 12. Netherlands 13. Romania 16. Slovaks 15. Spain 16. Czechoslovakia’s Germans 17. Sweden 18. Ukrainians

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