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The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "the left" as we know it today In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across divisions of ideology, geography, race, language, and nationality. Joseph Fronczak shows how socialists, liberals, communists, anarchists, and others achieved a semblance of unity in the fight against fascism. Depression-era antifascists were populist, militant, and internationalist. They understood fascism in global terms, and they were determined to fight it on local terms. In the United States, antifascists fought against fascism on the streets of cities such as Chicago and New York, and they connected their own fights to the ones raging in Germany, Italy, and Spain. As he traces the global trajectory of the antifascist movement, Fronczak argues that its most significant legacy is its creation of "the left" as we know it today: an international conglomeration of people committed to a shared politics of solidarity

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. A British Education -- 2. Witnessing the Rise of Fascism in Florence (September 1919-January 1923) -- 3. Becoming Biancafiore (1923-24) -- 4. The Best of Times, The Worst of Times (1924-26) -- 5. From Milan to Savona: The Last Stand in Italy (July 1926-September 1927) -- 6. Welcome to the 'Escape Club': Lipari (January 1928-July 1929) -- 7. New Beginnings: The Heroic Years (1929-31) -- 8. Building a Life in Exile (1932-34) -- 9. The Personal is Political (1935-36) -- 10. Death in Normandy (Spring 1937) -- 11. Hope against Hope (July 1937-July 1940) -- 12. So Far Away from Italy USA - (July 1940-July 1943) -- 13. Hope is Reborn USA - (July 1943-June 1946) -- 14. Coming Home (July 1946-October 1949) -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Sources and Bibliography.

Cover -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyrigth Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Historiography -- Chapter 1: Edition of Documents from the Ringelblum Archive -- Political Censorship -- Editorial Changes as Internal Censorship? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: "A Great Civic and Scientific Duty of Our Historiography" -- Miroslav Kárný -- Holocaust Witness and Scholar -- Class Struggle and Imperialism, or the Persecution and Murder of the Jews? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: The Conflicted Identities of Helmut Eschwege -- Conclusion -- Part Two: Sites of Memory -- Chapter 4: Parallel Memories? -- Mutually Exclusive Memories? -- Screaming Silences? Memorialization of World War IIin Public Spaces -- Marginalized Memory? Martyr Memorial Servicesin the Jewish Community -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Holocaust Narrative(s) in Soviet Lithuania -- Agency and Power: Creating the Ninth Fort Museum -- Creation of a Commemorative Idiom -- Medialization of the Ninth Fort as a Site of Memoryin Soviet Lithuania: -- Conclusions -- Post Scriptum: Changes in the Memorialization in the 1980s -- Chapter 6: Memory Incarnate: Jewish Sites in Communist Polandand the Perception of the Shoah -- "The Ground is Burning Beneath My Feet" -- New Legal Framework -- Such Profanation is Unacceptable -- Open Door to the Abyss -- A Turning Point -- The Final Years -- Part Three: Artistic Representations -- Chapter 7: Writing a Soviet Holocaust Novel -- Literature and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union:The Example of Rybakov -- Heavy Sand: Finding Facts and Making Use of Soviet Realist Templates -- Heavy Sand: The Soviet Holocaust Narrative and Its Discontents -- Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting the Holocaust in the USSR.

The current proliferation of authoritarianism across both core and periphery is one political articulation of the current crisis of the capitalist world-system. Authoritarianism similarly proliferated in previous periods of crisis, in the 1970s and 80s in the peripheries, and in the 1930s and 40s in the core. In Part I of this essay, I detail how world-systems analysts have long been attuned to describing and analyzing chaotic moments in between systemic cycles of hegemony, but less attention has been given to the rise of authoritarianism in these chaotic phases. The multiple crises of hegemonic transition engenders an ideological contestation between Fascism and Communism revealing the limitations of Liberalism, the foundational ideology of the world-system. In such periods of hegemonic breakdown, anarchists developed autonomous strategies of resisting authoritarian rule at both the point of production (the worker-occupied and self-managed workplace) and at the point of leisure (the autonomous zone of the infoshop or café as resources and interventions in the joint struggle against capitalism and authoritarianism. These theories are important to recover for the contemporary fight against a resurgent authoritarianism across the world-system in the current conjuncture.