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Despite the Second World War and the Holocaust, postwar Britain was not immune to fascism. By 1948, a large and confident fascist movement had been established, with a strong network of local organisers and public speakers, and an audience of thousands. However, within two years the fascists had collapsed under the pressure of a successful anti-fascist campaign. This book explains how it was that fascism could grow so fast, and how it then went into decline.
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'This volume has the obvious merit of exactly fulfilling its title's promise...it has a clear focus, a number of interesting hypotheses and an impressive volume of evidence...This is an interesting study, very well-supported by extensive evidence...' - John R Howe, The Lecturer
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DAVE RENTON is a lecturer at the Department of History at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. Educated at St John's College, Oxford, and with a doctorate from Sheffield University, he has previously taught in Tower Hamlets College, Nottingham Trent University and Rhodes University in South Africa. He has written widely on the subject of political ideology, and has published articles in Changing English, International Socialism, Lobster, and Race and Class. He is a former member of the editorial board of the magazine Socialist Review while his previous books include Red Shirts and Black, Fascists and Anti-Fascists in Oxford in the 1930s, and Fascism: Theory and Practice. He is a former member of the Socialist Workers Party.
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Book Title: Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Britain in the 1940s
Authors: Dave Renton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-59913-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-76085-7Published: 03 February 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59913-0Published: 20 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 203
Topics: Political History, Political Theory, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland