Antifascist humanism and the politics of cultural renewal in Germany /
Antifascism is usually described as either a political ideology of activists and intellectuals confronting the dictatorships of Hitler and Mussolini, or as a cynical tool that justified the Stalinist expansion of communism in Europe. Andreas Agocs widens our understanding of antifascism by placing i...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Antifascist humanism and the dual legacies of Weimar
- Part I. Defending the "Other Germany"
- The humanist front : antifascism and culture wars, 1934-9
- "Otra Alemanias" : antifascist humanism in the diaspora, 1939-44
- The "other Germany" from below : antifascist committees and national renewal in 1945
- Part II. Contesting "Other Germanies"
- Antifascism as renewal and restoration : the Cultural League for the Democratic Renewal of Germany, 1945-6
- Humanism with a socialist face : Sovietization and "ideological coordination" of the Kulturbund, 1946-7
- The limits of humanism : cultural renewal and the outbreak of the Cold War, 1947-8
- Mass organization and memory : antifascist humanism in divided Germany, 1948 and beyond
- Conclusion: From the Saar to Salamis.