TY - BOOK ID - 78073291 TI - Holy Legionary Youth PY - 2015 SN - 0801456339 0801456347 9780801456343 9780801453687 0801453682 9780801456336 PB - Ithaca, NY DB - UniCat KW - Nationalism KW - Fascism and youth KW - Fascism KW - Consciousness, National KW - Identity, National KW - National consciousness KW - National identity KW - International relations KW - Patriotism KW - Political science KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Internationalism KW - Political messianism KW - Youth and fascism KW - Youth KW - Neo-fascism KW - Authoritarianism KW - Collectivism KW - Corporate state KW - National socialism KW - Synarchism KW - Totalitarianism KW - History KW - Legiunea Arhanghelul Mihail. KW - Legion "Erzengel Michael" KW - Legión de San Miguel Arcángel KW - Legion of the "Archangel Michael" KW - Legiunea "Arhanghelul Mihail" pentru Apărarea Pământului Strămoșesc KW - Mihály Arkangyal Légió KW - Mișcarea Legionară KW - Garda de Fier KW - Romania KW - Politics and government KW - Legion “Archangel Michael” UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78073291 AB - Founded in 1927, Romania's Legion of the Archangel Michael was one of Europe's largest and longest-lived fascist social movements. In Holy Legionary Youth, Roland Clark draws on oral histories, memoirs, and substantial research in the archives of the Romanian secret police to provide the most comprehensive account of the Legion in English to date. Clark approaches Romanian fascism by asking what membership in the Legion meant to young Romanian men and women. Viewing fascism "from below," as a social category that had practical consequences for those who embraced it, he shows how the personal significance of fascism emerged out of Legionaries' interactions with each other, the state, other political parties, families and friends, and fascist groups abroad. Official repression, fascist spectacle, and the frequency and nature of legionary activities changed a person's everyday activities and relationships in profound ways.Clark's sweeping history traces fascist organizing in interwar Romania to nineteenth-century grassroots nationalist movements that demanded political independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It also shows how closely the movement was associated with the Romanian Orthodox Church and how the uniforms, marches, and rituals were inspired by the muscular, martial aesthetic of fascism elsewhere in Europe. Although antisemitism was a key feature of official fascist ideology, state violence against Legionaries rather than the extensive fascist violence against Jews had a far greater impact on how Romanians viewed the movement and their role in it. Approaching fascism in interwar Romania as an everyday practice, Holy Legionary Youth offers a new perspective on European fascism, highlighting how ordinary people "performed" fascism by working together to promote a unique and totalizing social identity. ER -