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Research interests
Transnational social movements, global history, international communism, Weimar Germany, anti-fascism and resistance, the history of international fascism, radicalisation, racism.
Biography
Kasper Braskén (PhD) has specialized on the history of international communism and the history of anti-fascism in European, transatlantic and global politics and social movements. Braskén has been visiting researcher at the Free University Berlin, Royal Holloway University of London, and Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF), Potsdam, Germany.
His research is based on extensive archival research in especially German, Russian, British and US archives.
He is author of The International Workers' Relief, Communism, and Transnational Solidarity: Willi Münzenberg in Weimar Germany (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and co-editor of both Anti-Fascism in the Nordic Countries: New Perspectives, Comparisons and Transnational Connections (Routledge, 2019) and Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective: Transnational Networks, Exile Communities, and Radical Internationalism (Routledge, 2021).
Braskén is currently working in the research project "Finland-Swedish Antifascism" (Den finlandssvenska antifascismen) that analyses the history of anti-fascism in Finland from the 1920s to the 1940s. The project investigates how anti-fascism was developed as a movement and idea within the Swedish speaking minority in Finland, and more generally analyse the relation between ethnic minorities and anti-fascism. Braskén will in the project examine the transnational connections established between the Swedish speaking anti-fascists in Finland, the Nordic Countries and to the transnational anti-fascist centres in Berlin, Paris and Vienna. The project is headed by Anders Ahlbäck and it was awarded 400.000 € by the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS) in November 2017.
Braskén is editorial board member of the international journal Twentieth Century Communism and since December 2020 the book reviews editor of the journal.
Braskén has peer reviewed original research articles for the journals Global Networks (Wiley), Contemporary European History (Cambridge UP), Scandinavian Journal of History (Routledge); and Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies (Brill). Moroever, he has reviewed books in European History Quarterly, History: The Journal of the Historical Association, American Historical Review, Twentieth Century Communism, Historisk Tidskrift för Finland, Finsk Tidskrift, International Newsletter of Communist Studies, and H-Net (H-Socialisms).
ONGOING & FORTHCOMING RESEARCH:
- Co-editor of a forthcoming special issue on ‘Anti-Fascism in Southern Africa 1919-2019’, South African Historical Journal, (together with Jonathan Hyslop and Neil Roos): https://networks.h-net.org/node/28765/discussions/6115232/cfp-special-issue-south-african-historical-journal-‘anti-fascism
- Co-editor of forthcoming edited volume: Anti-fascism and Ethnic Minorities: Political and Cultural Forms of Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe, ca 1920–1950: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6935115/cfp-anti-fascism-and-ethnic-minorities-political-and-cultural
- Book under contract with Routledge: Anti-Fascism: A Global History, (with Nigel Copsey), a co-authored monograph on key moments in the global history of anti-fascism from the 1920s to the present day.
Teaching
Global history; revolutions; protest movements, international communism, antifascism, fascism
External positions
Visiting researcher, Free University of Berlin
1 Dec 2017 → 31 Aug 2019
Visiting researcher, Royal Holloway University of London
8 Jan 2016 → 23 Mar 2016
Visiting researcher, Free University of Berlin
1 Sep 2014 → 31 Aug 2015
Keywords
- DD Germany
- Weimar Republic
- HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism
- solidarity
- antifascism
- DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
- Comintern
- DL Northern Europe. Scandinavia
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Den finlandssvenska antifascismen
Ahlbäck, A., Braskén, K., Kaihovirta, M., Perera, Y. & Wickström, M.
Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
01/01/19 → …
Project: Foundation
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Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective: Transnational Networks, Exile Communities, and Radical Internationalism
Braskén, K. (ed.), Copsey, N. (ed.) & Featherstone, D. (ed.), 21 Sep 2020, Routledge. 330 p.Research output: Book/Journal/Report › Edited Book/Edited Journal › Scientific › peer-review
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Anti-fascism in the Nordic Countries: New Perspectives, Comparisons and Transnational Connections
Braskén, K. (ed.), Copsey, N. (ed.) & Lundin, J. A. (ed.), 2019, Routledge.Research output: Book/Journal/Report › Edited Book/Edited Journal › Scientific › peer-review
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Making Anti-fascism Transnational: The Origins of Communist and Socialist Articulations of Resistance in Europe, 1923–1924
Braskén, K., 2016, In: Contemporary European History. 25, 4, p. 573–596Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
6 Citations (Scopus) -
The International Workers' Relief, Communism, and Transnational Solidarity: Willi Münzenberg in Weimar Germany
Braskén, K., 2015, Palgrave Macmillan.Research output: Book/Journal/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
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South African Anti-Fascism and the Nazi Foreign Office: Antisemitism, Anti-communism and the Surveillance of the Third Reich’s International Enemies
Braskén, K., 13 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: South African Historical Journal. 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Data underlying the publication Whether Black or White – United in the Fight
Braskén, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 19 Mar 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4621428, https://zenodo.org/record/4621428#.YIv7ZS1ypYI
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Data underlying the publication Make Scandinavia a Bulwark against Fascism
Braskén, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 19 Mar 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4621419, https://zenodo.org/record/4621419#.YIv9fi1ypYI
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Data underlying the publication Aid the Victims of German Fascism
Braskén, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 19 Mar 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4621139, https://zenodo.org/record/4621139#.YIv-Ti1ypYI
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“Make Scandinavia a Bulwark against Fascism!” Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Transnational Anti-Fascist Movement in the Nordic Countries
Kasper Braskén (Speaker)
17 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Public or invited talk
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Volksfront or Volksbund? The Political Mobilization of the German-American Minority Community in New York City during the 1930s
Kasper Braskén (Speaker)
3 Oct 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Public or invited talk
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German Studies Association Annual Conference
Kasper Braskén (Participant)
30 Sep 2021 → 3 Oct 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
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Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities
Matias Kaihovirta (Participant), Kasper Braskén (Organiser), Ylva Perera (Organiser) & Anders Ahlbäck (Organiser)
11 Nov 2021 → 12 Nov 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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“A Moral Victory for Soviet Russia”: International Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Context of the First Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin
Kasper Braskén (Speaker)
15 Oct 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Public or invited talk
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