Jože Pirjevec is a Principal Research Associate at the Science and Research Centre, Koper, and a Full Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. As a recipient of grants from Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Foundation, the Nobel Institute, the Soviet Academy of Sciences and other reputable institutions, he has conducted research work in Washington, London, Berlin, Moscow, and other archives and libraries. 

Egon Pelikan is a full professor and head of the Institute of Historical Studies of the Science and Research Centre in Koper (Slovenia). As a member of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he was a visiting professor at the Department of History of the University of Duisburg-Essen (2004/2005).

Sabrina P. Ramet is a Professor Emerita of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. She is also a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and a Research Associate of the Science and Research Center of the Republic of Slovenia, Koper. She is the author of 13 scholarly books.

Preface Introduction: What is Anti-Fascism? Its Values, its Strengths, its Diversities Jože Pirjevec, Egon Pelikan, and Sabrina P. Ramet PART I. Anti-Fascism in Fascist Italiy's Borderlands Chapter 1. Hate Speech Jože Pirjevec Chapter 2. Comparison of Fascist and national defense discourse Vesna Mikolič Chapter 3. Fascism, Anti-fascism, and Ethnic Engineering in the Former Austrian Littoral Borut Klabjan Chapter 4. Persevering on the Ramparts of the Nation: The Anti-fascism of Educated Women, Feminists, and Activists in the Littoral in the 1920s Marta Verginella Chapter 5. The anti-fascism of the Slovenian and Croatian Clergy in the Julian March during the Interwar Period – A View from the Vatican Egon Pelikan PART II. The Diversity of Anti-Fascism Chapter 6. The Anti-fascism of Hans & Sophie Scholl: Intellectual Sources of the White Rose Sabrina P. Ramet and Christine M. Hassenstab Chapter 7. The Committee against Neofascism and Racial Prejudices: Nordic Anti-Fascist Organizing and International Solidarity in the 1960s Pontus Järvstad Chapter 8. Anti-fascism in the land of holy water blessed by the swastika: The case of the Slovak State Marek Syrný and Anton Hruboň Chapter 9. Mussolini, Vilfan and the Slovenian minority Gianfranco Cresciani Chapter 10. From the Bauhaus to Buchenwald and to Berlin: Anti-fascism and Career in the Life of Franz Ehrlich Klaus Tragbar PART III. Anti-Fascism as a Legitimating Ideology Chapter 11. Passing the Torch: The Challenges of Anti-fascist Memory Transmission through Youth Ritual and Commemoration in the GDR Catherine J. Plum Chapter 12. Memory Practices in Slovenia through the Lens of Public Opinion Vida Rožac Darovec Chapter 13. A Note about the Collective Memory of Anti-Fascism since World War Two and its Revision Božo Repe Chapter 14. A Dire Warning to All Ethnic Minorities in Europe? Fascist Repression in South Tyrol and the Formation of Swedish-Speaking Anti-fascism in Finland Kasper Braskén Chapter 15. Maritime Communists Against Fascism and in Defense of the USSR: Transnational Anti-fascism in a Danish Perspective, 1933-1938 Jesper Jørgensen Afterword: “Are you a communist? No, I am an anti-fascist” Nigel Copsey About the authors For further reading Index of Names