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This study focuses on two Swedish politicians, Nils Flyg and Sven Olov Lindholm. During the interwar era, they were both leaders of various Swedish political parties; in the case of Flyg the Swedish Communist Party, and later on the Socialist Party; in the case of Lindholm the National Socialist Workers Party (later renamed Swedish Socialist Unity). Both men were, in other words, influential politicians located at the outer edges of the ideological landscape. During the span of their lifetimes, however, Flyg as well as Lindholm made remarkable ideological transitions. From the end of the thirties and onwards, the former communist leader Flyg successively embraced German Nazism. Lindholm on the other hand stepped down from his leadership after the war, and became a left-wing political activist who did not hesitate to identify himself as a communist. Superficially, this is strikingly symmetric: The communist leader becomes a Nazi, and the Nazi leader becomes a communist. The aim of the study is to analyze the ideological links and tensions between Nazism and communism using these parallel biographies as a point of entrance. Inspired by political theorist Michael Freeden and his conceptual approach, and using a variety of sources, two core clusters of political concepts are identified and compared. It is shown that there are great similarities between Flyg and Lindholm when it comes to the role of anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism and the aspiration to idealize the Soviet Union or Germany as model states for workers. There are also, however, a number of differences, especially when it comes to views on modernity and materialism. In the final chapter, Flyg and Lindholm are compared to other European renegades. Here, the ambition is to identify common traits in the conversions. It is argued that the ideological antagonisms, the anti-positions, are crucial to this kind of generic renegadism. *** Denna bok handlar om de svenska mellankrigstidspolitikerna Nils Flyg och Sven Olov Lindholm. Under tiden mellan vrldskrigen var de bda ledare fr varsitt politiskt parti. Flyg var ordfrande fr Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti, sedermera kallat Socialistiska Partiet. Lindholm var under samma period ledare fr Nationalsocialistiska Arbetarpartiet, sedermera omdpt till Svensk Socialistisk Samling. De var med andra ord inflytelserika politiker p varsin ideologisk flank. Under sina respektive liv kom de dock att gra uppseendevckande ideologiska frflyttningar. Flyg kom frn andra halvan av 30-talet och framt att alltmera ppet omfamna den tyska nazismen. Lindholm sin sida lade ner sitt parti efter krigsslutet och kallade sig med tiden ppet fr kommunist. D Flyg och Lindholm stlls sida vid sida freligger allts en slende symmetri: Kommunistledaren blir nazist och nazistledaren blir kommunist. Bokens syfte r att med utgngspunkt i dessa bda biografiska fall dissekera det ideologiska kraftfltet mellan kommunism och nazism. Med metodologisk inspiration frn den politiske teoretikern Michael Freeden och hans begreppsliga idanalys, samt ett brett kllunderlag, identifieras tv ideologiska krnkluster som sedan jmfrs. Likheter mellan Flyg och Lindholm fastsls, inte minst genom ett gemensamt antikapitalistiskt och antiimperialistiskt stllningstagande liksom en ambition att idealisera Sovjetunionen och Tyskland som mnsterstater fr arbetare. Till de skillnader som gr att identifiera hr inte minst olika synstt p materialism och modernitet. I ett avslutande kapitel jmfrs Flyg och Lindholm med samtida europeiska renegater, med ambitionen att identifiera gemensamma drag i dessa vergngsprocesser. Inte minst fokuseras hr den roll som det negativt uttryckta idinnehllet tycks spela i respektive omprvning. Academic co-ordinator is Lars M. Andersson, Senior Lecturer, History, Uppsala University: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1718-2448