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Title: Waiting for a Polish Mussolini : The Concepts and Contexts of ‘Fascism’ in Early Polish Right-Wing Political Discourse (1922–6): An Exploratory Study

Creator:

Krzywiec, Grzegorz (1974– ) ORCID

Date issued/created:

2021

Resource type:

Text

Subtitle:

Acta Poloniae Historica T. 123 (2021), In Memory of Professor Jerzy W. Borejsza

Institutional creator:

Polska Akademia Nauk. Komitet Nauk Historycznych ; Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla ISNI

Contributor:

Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Publisher:

Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

p. 143-186

Abstract:

The article presents the emergence and rooting of the concept of ‘fascism’ in Polish right-wing discourses, especially in the widely understood local nationalist movement of the 20th century (National Democracy, Endecja). According to the author, the early 1920s, and above all the period of Mussolini’s gaining power in Italy, was a decisive time (Sattelzeit by R. Koselleck) for the reception and transfer of both fascist concepts and ideas as a transnational phenomenon. Still, it also significantly influenced the radicalisation of the native right-wing identity in interwar Poland. However, the author proves how vital the role of radical anti-Semitism was in forming indigenous right-wing discourses and their subsequent political practices.

References:

Allardyce Gilbert, ‘What Fascism Is Not: Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept’, American Historical Review, lxxxiv, 2 (1979).
Borejsza Jerzy W., Il fascismo e l’Europa Orientale: Dalla propaganda all’ aggressione (Roma, 1981).
Gerwarth Robert, The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End (New York, 2016).
Gottfried Paul E., Fascism. The Career of a Concept (DeKalb IL, 2013).
Koselleck Reinhart, Begriffsgeschichten. Studien zur Semantik und Pragmatik der politischen und sozialen Sprache (Frankfurt am Main, 2006).
Payne Stanley G., Fascism. Comparison and Definition (Madison, 1980).
Tomasiewicz Jarosław, Naprawa czy zniszczenie demokracji? Tendencje autorytarne i profaszystowskie w polskiej myśli politycznej 1921–1935 (Katowice, 2012).
Wapiński Roman, ‘Kształtowanie się w Polsce w latach 1922–1939 poglądów na ruchy faszystowskie w Europie’, Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Studia nad Faszyzmem i Zbrodniami Hitlerowskimi, dclxxxvii, 9 (1985).

Relation:

Acta Poloniae Historica

Volume:

123

Start page:

143

End page:

185

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

application/octet-stream

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:204228 ; 0001-6829 ; 2450-8462 ; 10.12775/APH.2021.123.06

Source:

IH PAN, sygn. A.295/123 Podr. ; IH PAN, sygn. A.296/123 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Projects co-financed by:

National Programme for the Development of the Humanities

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