Dr. Tobias Abse is a historian. He was a lecturer in the subject at

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of the

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from 1994 to 2016. Abse has written extensively on the rise of the Fascist Right in

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prior to

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committee and the ''

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'' editorial board and is a regular contributor to UK socialist newspapers and magazines. Abse is the son of the

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MP and social reformer

Leo Abse Leopold Abse (22 April 1917 – 19 August 2008) was a Welsh lawyer and politician. He was a Welsh Labour MP for nearly 30 years, noted for promoting private member's bills to decriminalise male homosexual relations and liberalise the divorce l ...

(1917–2008). He was educated at

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, Highgate, and

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, where he graduated with a double-starred first-class degree in History in 1978.

Publications

*Abse, Toby. 2007. The Moro Affair: Interpretations and Consequences. In: S. Gundle and L. Rinaldi, eds. Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy Transformations in Society and Culture. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 89–100. *Abse, Toby. 2006. Catholic-Jewish Relations in Italy from Unification to the Second Vatican Council (1870-1965). In: Philip J. Broadhead and Damien V. Keown, eds. Can Faiths Make Peace? Holy Wars and the Resolution of Religious Conflicts. I.B Tauris, pp. 107–123. *Abse, Toby. 2005. Italy's Long Road to Austerity and the Paradoxes of Communism. In: B. Moss, ed. Monetary Union in Crisis: The European Union as a Neo-Liberal Construction. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 249–265. *Abse, Toby. 2003. Palmiro Togliatti, Loyal Servant of Stalin. In: K. Flett and D. Renton, eds. New Approaches to Socialist History. New Clarion Press, pp. 30–48.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abse, Tobias Living people British Marxist historians People educated at William Ellis School Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Year of birth missing (living people) Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London Welsh Jews British people of Polish-Jewish descent

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