10 From Antifascistas to PAF: Lexical and Political Interpretations of American International Brigaders in Spain during the Second World War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction. Beyond Revisionism: Rethinking Antifascism in the Twenty-First Century 1
5. Part One • Historical Antifascism, 1922–45 New Perspectives, New Research Topics
6. 1 Freedom for Thälmann! The Comintern and the Orchestration of the Campaign to Free Ernst Thälmann, 1933–39 23
7. 2 Was the French Popular Front Antifascist? 43
8. 3 ‘Beyond Cable Street’ New Approaches to the Historiography of Antifascism in Britain in the 1930s 61
9. 4 Searching for Antifascism: Historiography, the Crisis of the Liberal State and the Birth of Fascism and Antifascism in Italy, Spain and Portugal 76
10. 5 Was there an Antifascist Culture in Spain during the 1930s? 92
11. 6 Portugal within the European Antifascist Movement, 1922–39 114
12. 7 The Argentine Antifascist Movement and the Building of a Tempting Domestic Appeal, 1922–46 133
13. 8 Women and Antifascism: Historiographical and Methodological Approaches 152
14. 9 The Strained Courtship between Antifascism and Feminism: From the Women’s World Committee (1934) to the Women’s International Democratic Federation (1945) 167
15. Part TWO • Political Uses, Memory Wars and Revisionism from 1945 to the Present
16. 10 From Antifascistas to PAF: Lexical and Political Interpretations of American International Brigaders in Spain during the Second World War 187
17. 11 An Antifascist Political Identity? On the Cult of Antifascism in the Soviet Union and post-Socialist Russia 202
18. 12 The Burden of the Rear-View Mirror: Myth and Historiography of Republican Antifascism in France 228
19. 13 Did Revisionism Win? Italy between Loss of Historical Consciousness and Nostalgia for the Past 241
20. 14 Antifascism and the Resistance: Public Debate and Politics of Memory in Italy from the 1990s to the Present 258
21. 15 In Search of the Lost Narrative: Antifascism and Democracy in Present-Day Spain 276
22. 16 Dictatorship and Revolution: Disputes over Collective Memory in Post-Authoritarian 300
23. 17 Antifascism between Collective Memory and Historical Revisions 321
24. Index 339