Mysterious Illnesses of Human Commodities in Woody Allen and Franz Kafka by Iris Bruce

“…Zelig is therefore also a commentary on the cultural climate which helped bring about the rise of fascism. Kafka could not benefit from Allen's hindsight, but Kafka's representation of what turns human beings into commodities with no identity of their own nonetheless complements Allen's picture. …”
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VISUAL PROPAGANDA DURING SPANISH CIVIL WAR by A. A. Koroleva

“…The Spanish Civil War is typically presented as a military narrative of the ideological battle between socialism and fascism, foreshadowing World War II. The art of posters was a massive manifestation of the art and public expression of ideologies. …”
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Everyday Life and Everyday Communication in Coronavirus Capitalism by Christian Fuchs

“…This collective experience can on the one hand result in new forms of solidarity and socialism or can on the other hand, if ideology and the far-right prevails, advance war and fascism. Political action and political economy are decisive factors in such a profound crisis that shatters society and everyday life.…”
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Cesare Goretti (1886-1952) Un profilo bio-bibliografico - Cesare Goretti (1886-1952) A bio-bibliographic profile by Filippo Domenicali

“…With his intransigence, Goretti embodied the example of an honest life, made up of patience, anti-fascism and rigor. …”
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The Problem of Comparative-Historical Nature of the Soviet Bureaucracy in Theoretical Heritage of L.D. Trotsky by V. P. Makarenko, Reefat Kamaleldin Badawy Khaled

“…There is a similarity between the political practice of Stalin, the activities of the Orthodox Church, the police state, Italian fascism and German Nazism. Any theoretical works commissioned by the pinnacle of the bureaucracy contain the danger of reproducing all the features of the Stalinist way of thinking and acting.…”
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‘Towards a Latin Europe’: Vers une Europe Latine: Acteurs et enjeux des échanges culturels entre la France et l’Italie fasciste, Catherine Fraixe, Lucia Piccioni and Christophe Pou... by Romy Golan

“…For those French diplomats and cultural officials on the Right who mistrusted the messiness of the democratic parliamentary system and were haunted by a fear of their nation’s cultural decadence and its alleged subjugation to the North, “Latin” fascism became a beacon. Roughly half of the essays in the book retrace however the fortunes of individual Francophile Italians living in Paris whose activities contributed to promoting and thus legitimizing the art and literature produced under the Fascist regime. …”
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The Architecture of Agricultural Villages for Metropolitans in the Fourth Shore (1934-1940 by Maria Rossana Caniglia

“…The intensive demographic colonisation of Libya was the result of the ambitious political and ideological programme implemented by Fascism, from the 1920s to the 1940s, with the aim of ruralising and enhancing scantly anthropized territories thanks to the agricultural work of the new settlers who arrived from Italy. …”
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Minnediplomati i grenseland. De russisk-norske patriotiske minneturene 2011–2019 by Kari Aga Myklebost

“…The statements emphasized the acute importance of the patriotic memory tours to resist allegedly growing neo-fascism in today’s Europe. The article argues that the narrative staging of the tours must be read in the context of the Kremlin’s ongoing memory wars with former Soviet republics and Eastern bloc states and Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine since 2014.…”
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“I could still see her in my mind’s eye”: Water and Maternal Imagery in Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Caroline Rupprecht

“…As this article concludes, the author himself seems caught in the predicament of Suleiman’s 1.5 Generation, where perception is blurred, and immersing oneself in (imaginary) bodies of water becomes a response to the madness of fascism.…”
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Recensioner by Ingemar Haag, Per-Olof Mattsson, Anna Bohlin, Greger Andersson, Carin Franzén, Axel Englund

“…THE IDEA AND IMAGE OF THE MASSES FROM REVOLUTION TO FASCISM New York: Columbia University Press, 2013, 312 s. …”
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The War in the Historical Memory of Nations by N. V. Pavlov

“…There is no doubt that the most important event of the 20th century was a joint victory of the united front of peoples and states over German fascism. For some that was the victory in the Second World War. …”
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Plantifa: Antifascist Guerrilla Gardening Curriculum by Brandon Edwards-Schuth, Marco AG Cerqueira

“…; “Is planting local flora legally or ethically wrong?” and “Why is anti-fascism important to our community and our eco-system?” …”
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Profesor Alojzij Geržinič by Aleš Brecelj

“…As an opponent of the Liberation Front, he then, at the request of the Home Guard leadership in Primorska, began to engage in the restoration of the Slovenian schools that had been suppressed by fascism. Upon the arrival of the Yugoslav Army in Trieste, he moved to refugee camps in Italy. …”

THEORY OF ITALIAN NATURAL BOUNDARY, BETWEEN «MISTAKES» AND AUGUSTAN ECHOES by Michele Pigliucci

“…Among the reasons in support of this issue, there was, for the western boundary, the Roman history of the Giulia region – revealed by Latin etymology of toponyms – since Augustus incorporated it in X Regio Venetia et Histria, that is to say in Italian jurisdiction. After fall of Fascism, in historical reading, Italian geographers were accused of providing intellectual groundwork to rising nationalism, submitting Geography to imperialism. …”
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Jewish Civilizationism in Israel: A Unique Phenomenon by Raja M. Ali Saleem

“…Many scholars consider them the biggest challenges to democracy since the rise of fascism and communism in the first half of the last century. …”
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Struggle for Liberation of the Peoples of Yugoslavia (Belgrade Operation) by N. F. Azyasskiy

“…In the military history of our homeland many memorable important dates leading up to the final victory over fascism are forever imprinted. One of these dates is October 20, 1944, the day of the liberation of Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, and the day of completion of the Belgrade operation. …”
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Censura, autocensura e malapartiana revisione: storie di una corrispondenza scartata e recuperata ne Il Volga nasce in Europa by Carla Giacobbe

“…In this essay, we try to retrace the philological history of The Volga Rises in Europe, showing that not all the changes operated by the author on the text are led by the attempt at distancing himself from Fascism. One certain correspondence, “Una tomba nei sobborghi di Leningrado”, which has been reinserted in the latest edition, has probably a whole different story. …”
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BEYOND BOURGEOIS LIBERALIZATION: A PATHWAY TO THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM by David S. Pena

“…Bourgeois liberalization claims to be a path forward to modernity, but it actually leads to social collapse, gangsterism, fascism, and subjugation by imperialism. Bourgeois liberalization does not lead to genuine modernity; it leads to the capitalist perversion of modernity. …”
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Dorothy Richardson’s Correspondence during the Second World War and the Development of Feminine Consciousness in Pilgrimage by Ivana TRAJANOSKA

“…However, her letters also, in a very subtle way, portray life in a world where socialism, communism and fascism were competing. Unlike some of her contemporaries, direct treatment of war is absent from both her novels and correspondence. …”
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‘Tunisian Question’ in Franco-Italian Relations (1922—1928) by T. P. Nesterova

“…It is proved that Tunisia, with its large Italian diaspora, occupied a significant place in the African policy of Italy during the period of fascism. It is substantiated that the period of the 1920s was essentially the preparatory work for a more serious discussion of the colonial problems that arose between France and Italy, which resulted in the Laval-Mussolini agreement of 1935.…”
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