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Nordic Fascism Fragments of an Entangled History
Nordic Fascism is the first comprehensive history in English of fascism in the Nordic countries.
Transnational cooperation between radical nationalists has especially been the case in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, where fascism has not only developed through interdependent processes but also through interactions between and beyond national boundaries, and where “racial relationship” has been a core argument. With chapters ranging from the inception of fascism in the interwar years up to the present day, this book offers the first fragments of an entangled history of Nordic fascism. It illuminates how The North occupies a special place in the fascist imagination, articulating ideas about the Nordic people resisting the supposed cultural degeneration, replacement, or annihilation of the white race. The authors map ideological exchange between fascist organisations in the Nordic countries and outline past and present attempts at pan-Nordic state building.
This book will appeal to scholars of fascism and Nordic history, and readers interested in the general history of fascism.
Foreword: Nordic Fascism and the Story of Coalescing Asteroids
Roger Griffin
The Nature of Nordic Fascism: An Introduction
Nicola Karcher and Markus Lundström
1. Early Nordic Fascism and Antisemitic Conspiracism
Sofie Lene Bak and Terje Emberland with contributions from Heléne Lööw and Oula Silvennoinen
2. National Socialisms in Clinch: The Case of Norwegian National Socialists in Interwar Germany
Nicola Karcher
3. A Pragmatic Revolutionary: R. Erik Serlachius and Fascist Visions of Society and Community
Oula Silvennoinen
4. Nordic Heretics: A National Socialist Opposition in Norway and Denmark
Claus Bundgård Christensen and Terje Emberland
5. Hidden Knowledge and Mythical Origins: Atlantis, Esoteric Fascism and Nordic Racial Divinity
Gustaf Forsell
6. Esoteric Nordic Fascism: The Second Coming of Hitler and the Idea of the People
Mattias Gardell
7. Window to Europe: Finland and Nordic Fascist Networks During the Cold War
Tommi Kotonen
8. Ethnocultural and Racial Ambiguities of National Socialist State-Building: Finland and the Nordic Resistance Movement
Daniel Sallamaa and Leena Malkki
Biography
Nicola Karcher is a historian and an associate professor in social science at the Østfold University College, Norway.
Markus Lundström is an economic historian and an associate professor in sociology at Uppsala University, Sweden.
