Anti-Fascism in the Nordic Countries

Kasper Braskén, Ph. D. Åbo Akademi University, Finland

This book offers the first comprehensive history of anti-fascism in the Nordic Countries. Through a number of case studies on anti-fascism in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland the book makes a significant contribution to the history of contentious politics in the Nordic Countries.

Introduction - Kasper Braskén and Johan A. Lundin, Anti-fascism beyond the far left. 1. Anti-fascist discourses, practices and confrontations in 1930s Iceland - Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir and Pontus Järvstad, 2. Finnish liberals and anti-fascism, 1922-1932 - Jenni Karimäki, 3. An anti-fascist minority? Swedish-speaking Finnish responses to fascism - Matias Kaihovirta and Mats Wickström, 4. Conservative fascist sympathies and anti-fascism in 1930s Norway - Knut Dørum. Anti-fascist youth activism and militant resistance. 5. Three arrows against the swastika: militant social democracy and radical opposition to fascism in Denmark, 1932-1934 - Charlie E. Krautwald, 6. Social Democratic youth and anti-fascism in Sweden, 1929-1939 - Johan A. Lundin, 7. 'Boycott the Nazi Flag': the anti-fascism of the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers - Holger Weiss. Cultural fronts and anti-fascist intellectuals. 8. Anti-fascist race biology: Gunnar Dahlberg and the long farewell to the Nordic 'master race' - Martin Ericsson, 9. Finnish socialist intellectuals on fascism and anti-fascism in the 1930s - Tauno Saarela, 10. Intellectuals ready to fight: Scandinavian anti-fascist cultural fronts, 1935 - 1939 - Ole Martin Rønning, 11. Fighting for peace: the Workers' Stage, the popular front, and aid for Spain in 1930s Finland - Mikko-Olavi Seppälä, 12. The last 'Münzenberg empire': the transnational networks of Die Zukunft in the Nordic countries, 1938-1940 - Bernhard H. Bayerlein. Post-war anti-fascisms. 13. Framing anti-fascism in the Cold War: the Socialist Youth International and Franco's regime after the Second World War - Anders Dalsager, 14. Radical-right movement and countermovement in Denmark, 1985-present - Flemming Mikkelsen, 15. Challenging fascist spatial claims: the struggle over the 30 November marches in southern Sweden - Andrés Brink Pinto and Johan Pries, Afterword - Nigel Copsey.