Postsocialist and Postcapitalist Questions? Far-Right Historical Narratives and the Making of a New Europe

Author(s)

Agnieszka Pasieka

Abstract

Despite a growing number of novel approaches to the far right and new explanatory models, one feature appears to persist in the scholarship: namely, a tendency to discuss the developments in Western Europe and in postsocialist countries separately. Bucking this trend, this article investigates the similarities between the activism of Italian and Polish far-right movements, focusing on the field of historical politics. More specifically, it investigates the ways in which the memories of World War II and accounts of victims of communism are mobilized in the two countries, as well as the question of “censorship” and “mainstreaming” of far-right historical narratives. Apart from comparing the developments in these countries, the article discusses various forms of cooperation between Polish and Italian far-right movements, which reveal their mutual influences but also the limits of transnational networking.

Organisation(s)

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Journal

East European Politics and Societies (EEPS)

Volume

35

Pages

975-995

No. of pages

21

ISSN

0888-3254

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325420977628

Publication date

11-2021

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

504017 Cultural anthropology

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Sociology and Political Science

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/b15d4039-7040-4859-b283-fe100bae9a5e