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New Political Ideas in the Aftermath of the Great War

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Editors:
  1. Alessandro Salvador

    1. University of Trento, Trento, Italy

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  2. Anders G. Kjøstvedt

    1. University of Oslo (IAKH), Blindern, Norway

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  • Offers a Europe-wide perspective on post-war Fascism and far-right politics
  • Maps the ideological and political consequences of the First World War
  • Analyses the 'third way' post-war initiatives which followed this conflict

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Rediscovering Democracy and the Nation: Hendrik de Man and the Legacy of the Great War

    • Tommaso Milani
    Pages 1-23

  3. Violence, Vienna, Versailles, and Venezuela: The Effects of World War 1 on the Nationalist Thought of Miloš Crnjanski

    • John K. Cox
    Pages 25-40

  4. French Intellectual Fascism and the Third Way: The Case of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce

    • Daniel Knegt
    Pages 41-65

  5. The Making of Harold Macmillan’s Third Way in Interwar Britain (1924–1935)

    • Valerio Torreggiani
    Pages 67-85

  6. The Contradictions of Veterans’ Associations? The Fascist Appropriation of the Legacy of World War I and the Failure of Demobilisation

    • Matteo Millan
    Pages 87-108

  7. Frontsozialismus der Tat: War Experience as the Foundation of Corporatism in the Stahlhelm Veterans’ League

    • Alessandro Salvador
    Pages 109-127

  8. In the Shadow of the Lost War: The Nazi Movement and Labour Conflicts in the Weimar Period

    • Anders G. Kjøstvedt
    Pages 129-150

  9. “We’re of their blood and spirit of their spirit”: Ex-servicemen and the British Union of Fascists

    • Jakub Drábik
    Pages 151-174

  10. The Legacy of the Front: The Disabled Veterans of the First World War in Germany after 1918

    • Nils Löffelbein
    Pages 175-197

  11. Within the Fascist World of Work: Sven Olov Lindholm, Ernst Jünger and the Pursuit of Proletarian Fascism in Sweden, 1933–1945

    • Victor Lundberg
    Pages 199-217

  12. Francoist Veterans and the “New State”: Social Benefits and the Consolidation of the Franco Regime (Spain, 1938–1945)

    • Ángel Alcalde
    Pages 219-239

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 241-244
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About this book

This edited collection presents new research on how the Great War and its aftermath shaped political thought in the interwar period across Europe. Assessing the major players of the war as well as more peripheral cases, the contributors challenge previous interpretations of the relationship between veterans and fascism, and provide new perspectives on how veterans tried to promote a new political and social order. Those who had frontline experience of the First World War committed themselves to constructing a new political and social order in war-torn Europe, shaped by their experience of the war and its aftermath. A number of them gave voice to the need for a world order free from political and social conflict, and all over Europe veterans imagined a third way between capitalist liberalism and state-controlled socialism. By doing so, many of them moved towards emerging fascist movements and became, in some case unwillingly, the heralds of totalitarian dictatorships.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Alessandro Salvador

  • University of Oslo (IAKH), Blindern, Norway

    Anders G. Kjøstvedt

About the editors

Alessandro Salvador is Lecturer in History at the University of Trento, Italy. His main research interests are the First World War, post-war demobilization processes, and the inter-war period in Italy and Germany. He is involved with the ‘World War II: Everyday Life under German Occupation’ project at the Herder Institut, Germany. His recent publications include La Guerra in Tempo di Pace. Gli ex Combattenti e la Politica nella Repubblica di Weimar (2013).


Anders Kjøstvedt is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is currently working on a project financed by the Norwegian Research Council, ‘Constructing a “People’s Community”: The Dual Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion in National Socialism’. He has published several articles on Nazism and the Nazi movement, and he is especially interested in the relationship between the regime and the population.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Political Ideas in the Aftermath of the Great War

  • Editors: Alessandro Salvador, Anders G. Kjøstvedt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38915-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38914-1Published: 21 November 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81772-9Published: 23 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-38915-8Published: 10 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 244

  • Topics: History of Modern Europe, History of Britain and Ireland, Political History

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