Left-Wing Radical Politics and Emergency Powers in Interwar Europe

[Zeta Books]

History of Communism in Europe, vol. 14 / 2023: Left-Wing Radical Politics and Emergency Powers in Interwar Europe

CORNELIU PINTILESCU, COSMIN CERCEL
Editors’ Introduction: Left-Wing Radical Politics and Emergency Powers in Interwar Europe

1. Within or Outside the Law: Containing the Communist Parties in Interwar Europe and its Postwar Aftermath

KRISTINA KRAKE
Taming, not Banning: Scandinavian Containment of the Communists

RASTKO LOMPAR
The Emergence and Evolution of Anticommunist Legislation in Interwar Yugoslavia

PASCAL GIRARD
Italian and French Democracies’ Containment of Communist Unrest in the Early Cold War

2. Revolutionary Left and Emergency Powers in Interwar Romania

CORNELIU PINTILESCU
Social Turmoil, Anti-Communist Discourses and the Resort to the State of Siege in Interwar Romania (1918–1933)

COSMIN SEBASTIAN CERCEL
Unearthing the Dark Side of the Law. Narratives of Law and Authority in the Tatar Bunar Trials

CRISTINA DIAC
Scapegoats or Agents of State Dissolution? The Comintern, the Romanian Communists, and the Grivița Strike in February 1933

IULIANA CINDREA-NAGY
>From Communists to Rebellious: Repressive Measures and Narratives of the State Against the Old Calendarist Communities in Romania (1924–1939)

III. Book Review

LOUIS MARIUS BREMOND
Alan Greene, Emergency Powers in a time of Pandemic (Bristol University Press, 2020).