Fighting Fascism: The British Left and the Rise of Fascism, 1919–39 978-0-7190-9121-6

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English Pages 261 Year 2010

Fighting Fascism: The British Left and the Rise of Fascism, 1919–39
978-0-7190-9121-6

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Keith Hodgson

Table of contents :
Front Cover ......Page 1
Short Title ......Page 3
Title Page ......Page 5
Printer's Imprint ......Page 6
CONTENTS ......Page 7
Dedication ......Page 9
Acknowledgements ......Page 11
Glossary of terms and abbreviations ......Page 13
Introduction ......Page 17
1. White Guards and Black Hundreds ......Page 43
Notes ......Page 62
2. Explaining Italian Fascism ......Page 66
Notes ......Page 82
3. The British Left and the rise of Nazism ......Page 87
i) the Independent Labour Party and the Socialist League ......Page 103
ii) British Trotskyism ......Page 105
Notes ......Page 107
4. The Left and Fascism in Britain, 1919-32 ......Page 113
Notes ......Page 135
5. Opposing the British Union of Fascists ......Page 141
Case study: political evolution and anti-fascism: CPGB ......Page 162
Notes ......Page 165
6. Fascism and war ......Page 172
Notes ......Page 200
Conclusion: the Old Left and the 'New Consensus' ......Page 210
Notes ......Page 227
Newspapers and periodicals ......Page 230
Collected works of contemporary authors and published document collections ......Page 231
Contemporary books and pamphlets ......Page 232
Books ......Page 238
Autobiographies and memoirs ......Page 246
Articles and reviews ......Page 247
Index ......Page 254
Rear Cover ......Page 261

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