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Political science -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945.
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Europe -- History -- 1918-1945.
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| Alt Name |
Salvador, Alessandro,
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Kjstvedt, Anders Granas, 1979-
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| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 244 pages) |
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polychrome rdacc |
| Summary |
This edited collection presents new research on how the Great War and its aftermath shaped political thought in the interwar period across Europe. Assessing the major players of the war as well as more peripheral cases, the contributors challenge previous interpretations of the relationship between veterans and fascism, and provide new perspectives on how veterans tried to promote a new political and social order. Those who had frontline experience of the First World War committed themselves to constructing a new political and social order in war-torn Europe, shaped by their experience of the war and its aftermath. A number of them gave voice to the need for a world order free from political and social conflict, and all over Europe veterans imagined a third way between capitalist liberalism and state-controlled socialism. By doing so, many of them moved towards emerging fascist movements and became, in some case unwillingly, the heralds of totalitarian dictatorships. |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rediscovering democracy and the nation: Hendrik de Man and the legacy of the Great War / Tommaso Milani -- Between Vienna, Venezuela, and Versailles: the effects of World War One on the nationalist thought of Milos Crnjanski / John K. Cox -- French intellectual fascism and the third way: the case of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce / Daniel Knegt -- The making of Harold Macmillan's third way in interwar Britain (1924-1935) / Valerio Torreggiani -- The contradictions of veterans' associations? The fascist appropriation of the legacy of World War I and the failure of demobilisation / Matteo Millan -- Frontsozialismus der Tat: war experience as the foundation of corporatism in the Stahlhelm Veterans' league / Alessandro Salvador -- In the shadow of the lost war: the nazi movement and labour conflicts in the Weimar period / Anders G. Kjstvedt -- "We're of their blood and spirit of their spirit": ex-servicemen and the British Union of Fascists / Jakub Drabik -- The legacy of the front: the disabled veterans of the First World War in Germany after 1918 / Nils Loffelbein -- Within the fascist world of work: Sven Olov Lindholm, Ernst Junger and the pursuit of proletarian fascism in Sweden, 1933-1945 / Victor Lundberg -- Francoist veterans and the "new state": social benefits and the consolidation of the Franco regime (Spain, 1938-1945) / Angel Alcalde. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| ISBN |
9783319389158 (electronic bk.) |
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3319389157 (electronic bk.) |
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9783319389141 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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3319389149 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| OCLC # |
962750921 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: New political ideas in the aftermath of the Great War. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017] 9783319389141 (DLC) 2016956213 (OCoLC)946908065 |
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