Abstract
The aim of the chapter is tobroadly discuss the anti-fascist activities ofinternational communist-led organizations in Berlin, London and Paris, 1922–1940. The chapter elaborates onhow anti-fascist articulations of fascism as a transnational, entangled andconnected European movement empowered and animatedtransnational cooperation between anti-fascists. The chapter presents a conciseoverview of communist anti-fascism in Western Europe and discusses moreover itsconflictual relation to the Soviet Union’s foreign policy needs and theinfluence of Stalin’s personal dictatorship on theanti-fascist culture during the 1930s, concluding with the USSR’s finalabandonment of communist anti-fascism in 1939.
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Fascism without Borders. Transnational Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe from 1918 to 1945 |
| Editors | Arnd Bauerkämper, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe |
| Publisher | Berghahn books |
| Pages | 288–311 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-78533-468-9 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
| MoE publication type | A3 Part of a book or another research book |
Keywords
- Communism
- France
- Germany, Political system, comparative politics
- International organizations
- Soviet Union
- Spanish Civil War
- United Kingdom