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A new work that looks at the struggle against fascism in Britain between the wars, argues that the British left have been overlooked in studies of anti-fascism, and maintains that the Labour Party, the Communist Party and other left-wing currents developed sophisticated analyses of fascism on a par with those of European socialists and communists. -- .

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Glossary of terms and abbreviations
Introduction
1. White Guards and Black Hundreds: existing concepts of counter-revolution
2. Explaining Italian fascism: from movement to dictatorship, 1919–26
3. The British left and the rise of Nazism
Case study: political evolution and analyses of fascism
4. The left and fascism in Britain, 1919–32
5. Opposing the British Union of Fascists
Case study: political evolution and anti-fascism
6. Fascism and war
Conclusion: the Old Left and the ‘New Consensus’
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/28/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719091216, 978-0719091216
      ISBN10: 0719091217

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A new work that looks at the struggle against fascism in Britain between the wars, argues that the British left have been overlooked in studies of anti-fascism, and maintains that the Labour Party, the Communist Party and other left-wing currents developed sophisticated analyses of fascism on a par with those of European socialists and communists. -- .

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Glossary of terms and abbreviations
      Introduction
      1. White Guards and Black Hundreds: existing concepts of counter-revolution
      2. Explaining Italian fascism: from movement to dictatorship, 1919–26
      3. The British left and the rise of Nazism
      Case study: political evolution and analyses of fascism
      4. The left and fascism in Britain, 1919–32
      5. Opposing the British Union of Fascists
      Case study: political evolution and anti-fascism
      6. Fascism and war
      Conclusion: the Old Left and the ‘New Consensus’
      Bibliography
      Index

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