Kasper Braskén
Biographic Data
| ID | 5692108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kasper Braskén |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kasper |
| FAMILY NAME | Braskén |
| SIGNATURE | BRASKÉN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Åbo Akademi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3744-5145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
South African Anti-Fascism and the Nazi Foreign Office
This article offers a new analysis of how the Third Reich’s Foreign Office reported on anti-fascist activities in the Union of South Africa during the 1930s. Based on letters, dispatches and reports written by the German legation and official German representatives in South Africa, the article reveals and discusses how Nazi officials followed and reacted to anti-fascist activity in South Africa. The article demonstrates how the German legation pe…
Political and Intellectual Lineages of Southern African Anti-Fascism
The article is the introduction to a special issue of the South African Historical Journal on anti-fascism. It starts by explaining the contemporary relevance of the subject. It then places Southern Africa within the contemporary historiographical debates on anti-fascism. The article provides a broad overview of the history of the anti-fascist political ideas and practice within the region. It examines in detail both the impact of ‘historical’ an…
'Whether black or white – united in the fight!' Connecting the resistance against colonialism, racism, and fascism in the European metropoles, 1926-1936
This article focuses on the ways in which anti-colonialism, anti-racism, and anti-fascism were intertwined within the Third Period, and the extent to which these ideals were already being drawn together in the preceding era of the United Front. Drawing heavily on the articles and imagery of Willi Münzenberg's Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung , the piece demonstrates the ways in which communist anti-fascist campaigning around the world facilitated th…
Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective
Hitler's seizure of power and the transnational anti-fascist movement in the Nordic countries
Jan De Graaf, Socialism Across the Iron Curtain
Talbot C. Imlay, The Practice of Socialist Internationalism
Christina Morina. Die Erfindung de Marxismus
Nine interlinked life stories constitute the topic of Christina Morina’s book on the formation of Marxism in late nineteenth-century Europe, Die Erfinduing de Marxismus: Wie ein Idee die Welt eroberte. The book is based on her habilitation at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in 2016 and offers an ingenious analysis of a leading group of European socialists. The selection includes eight male figures—Peter Struve, Georgi Plekhanov, Vladimir Ilyi…
Making Anti-Fascism Transnational
Conventionally, the starting point of socialist and communist resistance to fascism in Europe and the creation of a European ‘culture of anti-fascism’ is dated to the 1930s in the context of the establishment of the Third Reich in 1933 and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The hypothesis of the article is that the initiatives and debates of 1923 played a pivotal role in the creation of the transnational anti-fascist movement that tra…
The International Workersâ Relief, Communism, and Transnational Solidarity
The first major study on the making of new cultures, movements and public celebrations of transnational solidarity in Weimar Germany. The book shows how solidarity was used to empower the oppressed in
Making Anti-Fascism Transnational
Conventionally, the starting point of socialist and communist resistance to fascism in Europe and the creation of a European ‘culture of anti-fascism’ is dated to the 1930s in the context of the establishment of the Third Reich in 1933 and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The hypothesis of the article is that the initiatives and debates of 1923 played a pivotal role in the creation of the transnational anti-fascist movement that tra…
The International Workersâ Relief, Communism, and Transnational Solidarity
The first major study on the making of new cultures, movements and public celebrations of transnational solidarity in Weimar Germany. The book shows how solidarity was used to empower the oppressed in
Making Anti-Fascism Transnational
Conventionally, the starting point of socialist and communist resistance to fascism in Europe and the creation of a European ‘culture of anti-fascism’ is dated to the 1930s in the context of the establishment of the Third Reich in 1933 and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The hypothesis of the article is that the initiatives and debates of 1923 played a pivotal role in the creation of the transnational anti-fascist movement that tra…
Talbot C. Imlay, The Practice of Socialist Internationalism
Christina Morina. Die Erfindung de Marxismus
Nine interlinked life stories constitute the topic of Christina Morina’s book on the formation of Marxism in late nineteenth-century Europe, Die Erfinduing de Marxismus: Wie ein Idee die Welt eroberte. The book is based on her habilitation at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in 2016 and offers an ingenious analysis of a leading group of European socialists. The selection includes eight male figures—Peter Struve, Georgi Plekhanov, Vladimir Ilyi…
'Whether black or white – united in the fight!' Connecting the resistance against colonialism, racism, and fascism in the European metropoles, 1926-1936
This article focuses on the ways in which anti-colonialism, anti-racism, and anti-fascism were intertwined within the Third Period, and the extent to which these ideals were already being drawn together in the preceding era of the United Front. Drawing heavily on the articles and imagery of Willi Münzenberg's Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung , the piece demonstrates the ways in which communist anti-fascist campaigning around the world facilitated th…
Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective
Hitler's seizure of power and the transnational anti-fascist movement in the Nordic countries
Jan De Graaf, Socialism Across the Iron Curtain
South African Anti-Fascism and the Nazi Foreign Office
This article offers a new analysis of how the Third Reich’s Foreign Office reported on anti-fascist activities in the Union of South Africa during the 1930s. Based on letters, dispatches and reports written by the German legation and official German representatives in South Africa, the article reveals and discusses how Nazi officials followed and reacted to anti-fascist activity in South Africa. The article demonstrates how the German legation pe…
Political and Intellectual Lineages of Southern African Anti-Fascism
The article is the introduction to a special issue of the South African Historical Journal on anti-fascism. It starts by explaining the contemporary relevance of the subject. It then places Southern Africa within the contemporary historiographical debates on anti-fascism. The article provides a broad overview of the history of the anti-fascist political ideas and practice within the region. It examines in detail both the impact of ‘historical’ an…
Introduction
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (6 works) · European history and politics (6 works) · History (6 works) · Communism (5 works) · Law (5 works)