1st Edition

Political Outbreaks against the Liberal Order (1917-1939) Narratives, Practices and Celebrations

222 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a fresh perspective on right-wing and left-wing revolutions, as well as political uprisings against the liberal order in interwar Europe, focusing on how they were politically used in the public sphere and exploring how these events were narrated and visually represented to justify new authoritarian systems and generate consensus around them. Bringing together both senior... Read more

Part I

 

1                    A fictitious revolution: the legionary occupation of Rijeka/Fiume (1919-1921)

Federico Carlo Simonelli

 

2                    Legitimacy and the nationalisation of the masses during the regime of Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1930)

César Rina Simón and Maximiliano Fuentes Codera

 

3                    The tenth anniversary of the March on Rome abroad: commemorating the Decennale of the fascist revolution beyond Italy’s borders

Giorgia Priorelli

 

4                    Revolutionary narratives and Volksgemeinschaft in National Socialist celebrations

Nadine Rossol

 

5                    Memory keepers and memory makers: commemorative practices of the National Revolution during the early Estado Novo

Annarita Gori

 

 

 

Part II

 

6                    Symbols and myths of an ever-evolving Soviet world and their global impact (1917-1939)

Josep Puigsech Farràs

 

7                    Red Finland: revolutionary symbols as emotional figures in 1918

Tuomas Tepora

 

8                    Practices of expropriation and emotion in the Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1919–1920

Emily R. Gioielli

 

9                    Utopian visions and violent realities: German female revolutionaries and the legacy of 1918-1919

Corinne Painter

 

10                 Representing the democratic revolution during the Spanish Second Republic (1931-1936)

Lara Campos Pérez

 

Biography

Giorgia Priorelli is a researcher fellow at Universitat de Girona, Spain. Her research interests include nationalism, Italian and Spanish fascisms, neofascism, refugees and forced displacement in the twentieth century. Publications include Italian Fascism and Spanish Falangism in Comparison: Constructing the Nation (2020) and Combining Political History and Political Science: Towards a New Understanding of the Political (2022).

Annarita Gori is a research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. Her research focuses on cultural diplomacy, visual propaganda and intellectual networks during Portugal’s Estado Novo regime. Publications include Showing Salazarism. A Cultural History of Early Estado Novo Trought Political Exhibitions (2025) and Intellectuals in the Latin Space During the Era of Fascism: Crossing Borders (2020).

Maximiliano Fuentes Codera is an associate professor at Universitat de Girona, Spain. He is an expert in the cultural, intellectual and transnational history of modern Europe and Latin America, with a focus on the history of nationalism and the First World War. His latest book is The Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919: A Political and Cultural Approach from a COVID World (2023).