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Transnational and Transatlantic Fascism, 1918–2018: The Far Right in East Central and Southeastern Europe book cover

1st Edition

Transnational and Transatlantic Fascism, 1918–2018 The Far Right in East Central and Southeastern Europe

Edited By Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Per Anders Rudling Copyright 2026
364 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

364 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume charts the history of transnational and transatlantic fascism in East Central and Southeastern Europe, a lesser-known phenomenon that occurred throughout the twentieth century into the present. Organizations and individuals in this part of the continent, under the influences of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, conceptualized their own forms of fascism in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.... Read more

Introduction: Transnational Fascism
Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe and Per Anders Rudling

Part 1: Prewar

1. Understanding International Fascism: Fascist Regimes and Movements in Romanian Far-Right Newspapers
Roland Clark

2. The Contagion of Fascism: Transnational Fascism, Interwar Latvia, and Pathways of Transmission
Jordan Kuck

3. “Global idea expressed by Western Europe to prevent its own fall.” Czech fascism in a transnational perspective
Jakub Drábik

4. Minority affinities? The sources of fascist appeal for Hungarian minority elites and organizations
Gábor Egry

5. Money in times of crisis. The influence of the Great Depression on the development of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists on emigration (1929–1933)
Magdalena Gibiec

Part 2: Persecution, Violence and Genocide

6. The Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: Fascism, Genocidal Violence and Collaboration
Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe

7. On Mass Killing, Martyrdom Culture, and the Body: The Ustasha Regime as a Case Study in (Trans)national Fascist Violence

Rory Yeomans

Part 3: Cold War and Transatlatic Fascism

8. Fascism in People’s Poland. The Complicated Afterlife of a Marginalized Phenomenon
Grzegorz Krzywiec

9. Fascist Martyrdom for Export: Fr. Gheorghe Calciu Dumitreasa (1925–2006) and the “Saints of the Communist Prisons” as a Transnational Movement in Post-Communist Romania
Ionut Biliuta

10. Hollow Words, Broken Promises: The Ustaša, Ustašism, and the Croatian National Liberation Struggle during the Cold War
Mate Nikola Tokić

11. The memory of old fascisms in new spatial and temporal settings: Celebrating legionary sacrifice in Francoist Spain
Francesco Zavatti

Part 4: Postsoviet Transatlantic Fascism

12. The Genie out of the Bottle: Engagement of the Argentinean-Croat post-WW2 Diaspora in Homeland Politics (1990–today)
Nikolina Židek

13. The ideological discourse of Putin’s Russia: sovereigntism, neo-imperialism, and fascism
Denys Kiryukhin

14. “Fighters for the Freedom of Ukraine”: Canada’s Nazi Collaborator Monuments
Per Anders Rudling

Biography

Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe is Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin. He studied at the European University Viadrina and holds a PhD from the University of Hamburg and a Habilitation from the Freie Universität Berlin.

Per Anders Rudling is an Associate Professor of history and a former Wallenberg Academy Fellow (2019, prolongation 2024) at Lund University, Sweden. He holds MA degrees from the Universities of Uppsala (1998) and San Diego State (2003) and a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta (2009).

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