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L'auteur et journaliste franco-russe Serge de Chessin a apporté l'une des plus importantes contributions à une image positive de la Suède et de la Scandinavie au cours des années 1920 et 1930. Son travail cadre avec un discours sur des nations scandinaves heureuses mais présente quelques spécificités par rapport à d'autres contributions comparables. L'œuvre majeure de Chessin, Les Clefs de la Suède (1935), est une représentation dithyrambique de la Suède au travers d'un prisme conservateur. La Suède y est décrite comme une société harmonieuse, reposant sur un respect mutuel entre classes sociales, et où la population conserve un intérêt pour le passé national, tout en se tournant vers la vie moderne. L'image des Suédois comme des premiers de la classe, non-exempte d'eugénisme, est un poncif, tout comme la rhétorique antibolchevique continue et acerbe de Chessin. Dans les écrits de Chessin, la Suède est devenue une référence démontrant l'absorption réussie d'une forme douce de démocratisation dans une modernité et une société de masse en germe pendant l'entre-deux-guerres.

1. Ruth Hemstad and Peter Stadius, Introduction: Scandinavianism and Nordism in a Europe of Pan-national Movements 2. Joep Leerssen, Quixotic? Not Quite: On the Failures and Legacy of Macronational MovementsPart I: Scandinavianism and Great Power Politics3. Morten Nordhagen Ottosen, Scandinavian Windows of Opportunity, 1848-1858 4. Rasmus Glenthøj, Highwater for Political Scandinavianism, 1863-1865 5. Evgenii Egorov, Russian Empire and Pan-Scandinavianism: Grasping a Moving Target, 1840-1870Part II: Pan-movements, International Influences and Networks6. Niri Ragnvald Johnsen, Pan-nationalism Across Borders: Scandinavianism and International Influences 7. Mikael Björk-Winberg and Evgenii Egorov, Émigré Communities and Networks of Pan-national Activists in the Nordic Region: Emil von Qvanten & Mikhail Bakunin, Part III Nation-building and Region-building: From Scandinavianism to Nordism8. Anna Bohlin, Literature and the Construction of Scandinavian Peoples in Relation to Scandinavianism 9. Ruth Hemstad, A Greater Scandinavia. Pan-Scandinavian Associations within and beyond the Region10. Peter Stadius, Nordism as a Remake of the Scandinavian-Nordic Pan-nationalism Part IV: European Pan-movements: Comparative Perspectives11. Tim van Gerven, Constructive Forgetting and Reconciliatory Memory in Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction: A Comparative Perspective on Scandinavianism, Pan-Germanism, and Greater Netherlandism 12. Alvin Jackson, The 'Celtic nations', Britishness and the United Kingdom, 1800-1925 13. Ainur Elmgren, An Unforgettable Virtue: To Struggle for the Freedom of Turkic Nations in the Far North of Europe 14. Stefano Petrungaro, Pan-Slavism, its Ambiguities and Conflicting Interpretations

This article takes a closer look at how interwar supporters of modernism sought to overcome the opposition they had to face. It does so by looking at the usage of history and Swedishness at the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930 and contrasting this experience with a brief excursus on the image of progress and Americanism as presented at the A Century of Progress International Exposition, held in Chicago in 1933–1934. The backers of both these exhibitions – functionalist architects and progressive businessmen, respectively – consciously sought to find ways in which to savor the propagandistic value of this "the shock of the new" while retaining a reassuring continuity between well-known and widespread self-identifications with "the idyll of the past." They did so by forging "national" forms of modernity, attempting to bypass the political conflicts and ideological polarizations which characterized the interwar years. As such, it is argued, they also exemplify how the logic of the exhibition could be used for harnessing technology, science, and funkis (functionalism) as tools for re-identifying the nation with modernity and simultaneously de-politicizing modernism.

"With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s. In doing so, it revisits the transformation of this ideological family at the end of the Cold War, and before the launch of Third Way politics, and examines the dynamics and power relations at play among European social democratic parties in a context of nascent globalization. The chronological, methodological and geographical approaches adopted allow for a more nuanced narrative of change for European social democracy than the hitherto dominant centric perspective. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of social democracy, the European Centre-left, political parties, ideologies, and more broadly to comparative politics and European politics and history"--

"With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s.
In doing so, it revisits the transformation of this ideological family at the end of the Cold War, and before the launch of Third Way politics, and examines the dynamics and power relations at play among European social democratic parties in a context of nascent globalization. The chronological, methodological and geographical approaches adopted allow for a more nuanced narrative of change for European social democracy than the hitherto dominant centric perspective.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of social democracy, the European Centre-left, political parties, ideologies, and more broadly to comparative politics and European politics and history."

What makes a magazine in South Africa promote Scandinavian unity among its immigrant readers and why does a Swedish king endorse attempts to influence pan-Scandinavian opinion through a transnational media event in Sweden, Norway and Denmark? Can portraits of exotic Lapplanders in the British press, enthusiastic accounts of the welfare state in post-war travel literature and descriptions of the liberal Nordic woman as a metaphor for a freer society in Franco Spain really be bundled together under a joint label of 'Nordicness'? How is it that despite the variety of images of the Nordic region that are circulating, we still find this recurring idea of a shared Nordic identity? These are some of the questions the current volume seeks to answer. Covering the time period from the early nineteenth century up until the present and encompassing case studies from Britain, Spain, Poland, and South Africa, as well as from the Nordic countries, contributors to the volume investigate the images that have been presented of the Nordic region in the media in and outside of the Nordic countries, how such images have been shaped by mechanisms of mediation, and the channels through which they have been distributed. The chapters address both specific cases such as media events and individual publications, as well as the structural and institutional settings for mediating the Nordic region