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dc.rights.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisorDe Haan, I.
dc.contributor.authorOlthoff, D.
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-08T18:00:47Z
dc.date.available2019-01-08T18:00:47Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/31603
dc.description.abstractThis master thesis deals with three different periods of anti-fascism activism in the Netherlands between 1945 and 1989. Using Dan Stone’s theory of the downfall of the anti-fascist consensus and Nigel Copsey’s concept of the anti-fascist minimum, it asks the question what role anti-fascism has played as a structuring force in Dutch politics in the post-war era. Three different waves of anti-fascism are identified, during which ideological components significantly varied, leading to different views of what constituted the fascist threat. The main argument is that anti-fascism provided the left with a discourse to express anxieties about the survival of democracy, was driven by shifting narratives and interpretations of World War II and formed a potential instrument for intra-left cooperation.
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
dc.format.extent1004098
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dc.language.isoen
dc.titleOld and New Anti-Fascism. Evolutions of anti-fascist action in the Netherlands, 1945-1989
dc.type.contentMaster Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.keywordsanti-fascism, antifascism, action, politics, fascism, neo-fascism, racism, discrimination, communism, Cold War, PvdA, CPN, left, Nigel Copsey, Dan Stone, World War II, Dutch politics, the Netherlands, ideology, reconstruction, reactie, Waakzaamheid, AFFRA, AFdruk, twentieth century, memory politics
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