Hurrah for the Blackshirts!: Fascists and Fascism in Britain Between the Wars

by Martin Pugh

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Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars. But her success was a closer thing than has been realized. Disillusionment with parliamentary democracy, outbreaks of fascist violence and fears of communist subversion in industry and the Empire ran through the entire period.Fascist organizations may have failed to attract the support they achieved elsewhere but fascist ideas were show more adopted from top to bottom of society and by men and women in all parts of the country. This book will demonstrate for the first time the true spread and depth of fascist beliefs - and the extent to which they were distinctly British. Like the Continental movements, fascism in the UK encompassed the corporate state, charismatic leadership and youthful rejection of the decadent rule of the older generation. But was it less anti-Semitic? Was it readier to adopt a feminist agenda? And was the fact that Britain finally repudiated fascism more a matter of timing and chance than of fundamental obstacles in British society and politics?HURRAH FOR THE BLACKSHIRTS!, rich in anecdotes and extraordinary characters, shows us an inter-war Britain on the high-road to fascism but never quite arriving at its destination. show less

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Martin Pugh
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Martin Pugh is former Professor of British History at Newcastle University, UK.

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Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction
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320.53309410904 — Social sciences Political science Political science (Politics and government) Political ideologies Radicalism, collectivism, fascism Fascism Standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Europe Britain
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DA578 .P84 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England History By period Modern, 1485- 20th century
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