Transnationalizing fascist martyrs
An entangled history of the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin in Spain and Romania, 1937-41
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4773487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francesco Zavatti (0000-0002-7639-5374, Södertörn University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 268 |
| Pages | 264-286 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-3471 • E-ISSN: 1468-2281 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hisres/htab042 |
| OpenAlex | W4206588480 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This article analyses the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin, two Romanian Legionary movement volunteers who died while fighting for Franco in the Spanish Civil War, as an entangled history of Romanian and Spanish fascisms. The commemoration practices and narratives recounted in the Spanish and Romanian newspapers and archival sources from the period 1937-41 show that commemorating foreign ideological peers and appropriating symbolic elements of foreign fascisms in order to memorialize fallen comrades served as resources for legitimizing the struggle against domestic competitors. Although the totalitarian ambitions of Spanish and Romanian fascists remained unfulfilled, the Spanish-Romanian entanglement contributed to consolidating Moţa and Marin as martyrs of transnational fascism
Ancient history · Art · Economic history · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Memorialization · Narrative · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Romanian · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy
Holy Legionary Youth
Spanish Fascism as a Political Religion (1931–1941)
The Sacralization of Martyric Death in Romanian Legionary Movement
The battle for influence
Transatlantic Fascism
The Transnational Consensus
Staging Death
From slime mould to rhizome
Fascism for Export’? The Rise and Eclipse of the Fasci Italiani all'Estero
Work Camps, Commerce, and the Education of the ‘New Man’ in the Romanian Legionary Movement
Fascism without Borders
Transnational Fascism
Fighting For Franco
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |