Marco BrescianiLearning from the Enemy
An Intellectual History of Antifascism in Interwar Europe
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Introduction
Which Antifascism?
Learning from the Enemy
1. Antifascism as an Experiment
1.1. Understanding Fascism Means Fighting Fascism
1.2. Group Picture: Between Giolitti and Mussolini
1.3. Blending Liberalism, Democracy, and Socialism
1.4. The Turtle Conspiracy
1.5. In the Shadow of Piero (But Not Only)
2. Exile in Paris as a Laboratory
2.1. Fascism: ‘Th e Autobiography of a Nation’, or of Europe?
2.2. Crisis of Democracy and of the Nation-State
2.3. Class Politics, Revolutionary Myths, Soviet Dictatorship
2.4. ‘Non-Conformist’ Strategies of Imitation and Competition
2.5. Crisis of Civilization
3. Time for Action?
3.1. A ‘European Civil War’
3.2. ‘Which Italy?’
3.3. ‘Conspiracy in Broad Daylight’ (Turin)
3.4. Different Time Frames
3.5. Spain: An International Battleground
4. Shades of Socialism
4.1. Rosselli’s Legacy: What Form of Socialism in an Age of Tyranny?
4.2. Nations, Europes, and Empires
4.3. Exploring the World (from a Prison Cell in Rome)
4.4. In the Footsteps of Heretics and Utopians
5. A Posthumous (and Hidden) Vitality
5.1. From the Fall of Paris to the Resistance
5.2. The Knight and the Castle
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