Varieties of Anti-Fascism: Britain in the Inter-War Period

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by  Nigel Copsey

Varieties of Anti-Fascism
Britain in the Inter-War Period
Nigel Copsey
Andrzej Olechnowicz
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Also by Nigel Copsey
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Andrzej Olechnowicz
WORKING-CLASS HOUSING IN ENGLAND BETWEEN THE WARS: The
Becontree Estate
THE MONARCHY AND THE BRITISH NATION 1780 TO THE PRESENT (edited)
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Varieties of Anti-Fascism
Britain in the Inter-War Period
Edited By
Nigel Copsey
Reader in Modern History, Teesside University, UK
Andrzej Olechnowicz
Lecturer in Modern British History, Durham University, UK
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Contents
List of Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgements x
List of Contributors xi
Preface:Towards a New Anti-Fascist ‘Minimum’? xiv
Nigel Copsey
Introduction: Historians and the Study of Anti-Fascism in 1
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Andrzej Olechnowicz
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7. Passive and Active Anti-Fascism: The State and National 162
Security, 1923–45
Richard Thurlow
Part III Intellectual Responses 181
8. Anti-Fascist Europe Comes to Britain: Theorising 183
Fascism as a Contribution to Defeating it
Dan Stone
9. Labour Theorises Fascism: A. D. Lindsay and Harold Laski 202
Andrzej Olechnowicz
10. The Limits of Pro-Fascism and Anti-Fascism: 224
G. K. Chesterton and Arthur Bryant
Julia Stapleton
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List of Abbreviations
AIA Artists’ International Association
BEU British Empire Union
BF British Fascists
BUF British Union of Fascists
Comintern Communist International
CP Communist Party
CPGB Communist Party of Great Britain
CRA Constitutional Research Association
ENA English National Association
BNP British National Party
GCCS Government Code and Cypher School 9
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NJC National Joint Council bliot
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