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View submission: Historical opposition to facism
My usual disclaimer when discussing anti-fascism: a lot of this reflects my opinion, shaped in turn by watching and comparing contemporary events with the area I study. I don’t particularly believe in neutral, apolitical history in any context, but particularly in this one there’s no escaping it. There is a substantial scholarly literature on the subject if you’d prefer to read up yourself, for example:
Michael Seidman, *Transatlantic Antifascisms: From the Spanish Civil War to the end of World War II* (Cambridge, 2017).
Lisa Kirschenbaum, *International Communism and the Spanish Civil War* (Cambridge, 2015).
Tom Buchanan, ‘Anti-fascism and Democracy in the 1930s’, *European History Quarterly* 32:1 (2002), pp. 39–57.
Richard Evans, *The Coming of the Third Reich* (2003).
Tim Rees and Andrew Thorpe (eds.), *International Communism and the Communist International, 1919–43* (Manchester, 1998).
Richard Thurlow, *Fascism in Britain* (London, 1998) and ‘The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back: Public Order, Civil Liberties and the Battle of Cable Street’, *Jewish Culture and History* 1:2 (1998), pp. 74-94.
Nigel Copsey, *Anti-Fascism in Britain* (London, 2000).
Jon Lawrence, ‘Fascist violence and the politics of public order in inter‐war Britain: the Olympia debate revisited’, *Historical Research* 76:192 (2003), pp. 238-67.
Daniel Tilles, ‘Bullies or Victims? A Study of British Union of Fascists Violence’, *Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions* 7:3 (2006), pp. 327-46.
Tony Kushner and Nadia Valman (eds.), *Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-fascism in British Society* (London, 2000).
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