1st Edition

Perpetrators, Accomplices and Victims in Twentieth-Century Politics Reckoning with the Past

Edited By Anatoly M. Khazanov, Stanley Payne Copyright 2009
    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    These studies examine the ways in which succeeding democratic regimes have dealt with, or have ignored (and in several cases sugar-coated) an authoritarian or totalitarian past from 1943 to the present. They treat the relationship with democratization and the different ways in which collective memory is formed and dealt with, or ignored and suppressed. Previous books have examined only restricted sets of countries, such as western or eastern Europe, or Latin America. The present volume treats a broader range of cases than any preceding account, and also a much broader time-span, investigating diverse historical and cultural contexts, and the role of national identity and nationalism, studying the aftermath of both fascist and communist regimes in both Europe and Asia in an interdisciplinary framework, while the conclusion provides a more complete comparative perspective than will be found in any other work.

    The book will be of interest to historians and political scientists, and to those interested in fascism, communism, legacies of war, democratization, collective memory and transitional justice.

    This book was previously published as a special issue of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions.

    -Introduction: Matthew Feldman (University of Northampton) and Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University), Approaching "clerical fascism’

    -Griffin, Roger (Oxford Brookes University), ‘The Holy Storm’: "clerical fascism" through the lens of modernism

    -Steigmann Gall, Richard (Kent State University), The Nazis’ ‘Positive Christianity’: A case of "clerical fascism"?

    -Bodo, Bela (Grand Valley University), The Catholic Church and the White Terror in Hungary, 1919-1922

    -Cronin, Mike (Boston College), Catholicising fascism, fascistising Catholicism? The Blueshirts and the Jesuits in 1930s Ireland

    -Berggren, Lena (University of Umea), Completing the Lutheran revolution: "clerical fascism" and ultra-nationalism in interwar Sweden

    -De Wever, Bruno (Ghent University), Catholicism and fascism in Belgium

    -Linehan, Thomas (Brunel University), ‘On the Side of Christ’: clerics and fascists in interwar Britain

    -Dagninio, Jorge (University of Oxford), Catholic modernities in Fascist Italy: The case of the FUCI

    -Falina, Maria (Central European University), Between "clerical fascism" and political orthodoxy: the case of interwar Serbia

    -Pinto, Antonio Costa (University of Lisbon), Political Catholicism, Crisis of Democracy, and Salazar’s New State in Portugal

    -Biondich, Mark (Carleton University), The Ustasha and "clerical fascism" in the wartime Independent State of Croatia

    -Sandulescu, Valentin (Central European University), Scaralised Politics in Action: The February 1937 Burial of the Romanian Legionary Leaders Ion Mota and Vasile Marin

    -Kallis, Aristotle (University of Lancaster) The Metaxas regime and "clerical fascism" in interwar Greece

    -Pyrah, Robert (University of Oxford) Enacting Encyclicals: Austrian cultural politics in the context of "clerical fascism"

    -Shekhovstov, Anton (TO FOLLOW), "Clerical fascism" in interwar Ukraine: Its nature and place in the European context

    -Kocoureck, Katya (TO FOLLOW), ‘The father of the Slovak nation and his devout followers’: Andrei Hlinka, Jozef Tiso and Karol Sidor in the struggle for SL’s power, 1935-8

    -Krzywies, Grezegorz (TO FOLLOW), Catholic authoritarians or fascists: The Case of National Democracy in Poland

    -Pollard, John (Cambridge University), Context, Overview and Conclusion

    Biography

    Anatoly M. Khazanov is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

    Stanley G. Payne is Hilldale-Jaume Vicens Vives Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.