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En studie i etablissemangets och vänsterns attityder kring politiskt våld i en svensk småstad 1925.
In this Bachelor thesis I am going to look at attitudes towards political violence in a small town in Sweden in the 1920s. The town I have picked for this study is Kalmar situated on the east coast of Sweden. This study is a micro historic case study. The specific case is a strike at the city?s water and gas plants for higher salary. To see these attitudes in Kalmar, I have to ask myself these questions: Which are the establishment?s attitudes towards political violence in a small town in Sweden in the 1920?s? How does the working class movement, the work union and the social democratic party?s attitudes look like in a small town in Sweden in the 1920?s? The answer I got is that the establishment had a direct negative attitude towards the political violence at the gas plant in Kalmar. The working class and the unions and Social democratic party had a different attitude. They distanced themselves from the violence, but they showed sympathy for the person who got punished for the violence.