Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities

Anders Ahlbäck is a Lecturer in History at Stockholm University, Sweden. His previous books include Manhood and the Making of the Military: Conscription, Military Service and Masculinity in Finland, 1917-39 (Routledge, 2014).

Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities explores how, and to what extent, fascist ultranationalism elicited an anti-fascist response among ethnic minority communities in Eastern and Central Europe.

Introduction: Divided against themselves? Ethnic minorities, nationalism, and fractured anti-fascist identities Part 1: Borderlands, minority nationalism and anti-fascism 1. The ethnic roots of European anti-fascism: The Slovenes and Croats in interwar Italy 2. Resistance to the extremes: The facets of the Ukrainian National Movement in interwar Eastern Galicia 3. Anti-fascism and the nationality question in the ethnic Romanian-Hungarian borderlands: The case of Satu Mare 1930-1938 Part 2: Minorities between anti-communism and anti-fascism 4. The cohesive and dividing power of anti-fascism: Language and class among Finland-Swedes in the 1920s-1940s 5. The communist discourse on minorities in interwar Romania and its practical implications for the anti-fascist fighters Part 3: Intellectuals, minorities and anti-fascism 6. Hugo Valentin and the emergence of Swedish-Jewish anti-fascism: From the 1920s to World War II 7. Between fascism and Stalinism: Wolfgang Steinitz and anti-fascist Finno-Ugric scholarship in the 1930s-1950s 8. Mihail Ralea as anti-fascist and defender of ethnic minorities in interwar Romania Part 4: Minorities in the resistance to Italian and German occupation 9. Materiality, gender, and ethnicity in Jewish anti-Nazi resistance in German-occupied Lithuania 10. The role of ethnic minorities and the diaspora in anti-fascist resistance in Albania 11. The anti-fascist oppositions to the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Part 5: Ethnicity in collective memories of anti-fascism 12. Anti-fascist resistance, antisemitism and complex Jewish identities: Postwar political trials in Hungary and Czechoslovakia 13. Remembering and forgetting Jewish anti-fascism in Bulgaria 14. Sites of resistance: Memory, ethnicity, and anti-fascism at the Trieste lager