1st Edition
Garibaldi’s Radical Legacy Traditions of War Volunteering in Southern Europe (1861–1945)
By Enrico Acciai
Copyright 2021
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Between the two world wars, thousands of European antifascists were pushed to act by the political circumstances of the time. In that context, the Spanish Civil War and the armed resistances during the Second World War involved particularly large numbers of transnational fighters. The need to fight fascism wherever it presented itself was undoubtedly the main motivation behind these fighters’... Read more
Introduction
1. Fighting with Garibaldi: The First Red Shirt
2. Becoming Radicals
3. Greece, 1897: A New Generation of Red Shirts
4. Tradition Calls (Again): A Time of Crisis for Radical Garibaldinism
5. From Red Shirts to Black Shirts: Radical Garibaldinism Between the Two World Wars
Epilogue
Biography
Enrico Acciai is Assistant Professor at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", where he teaches global history.
