Fascism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

Passmore, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192801554 ISBN 13: 9780192801555

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2002

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What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? This book argues that it is both: fascism unleashes violence against the left and ethnic minorities, but also condemns the bourgeoisie for its "softness". Kevin Passmore opens his book with a series of "scenes from fascist life"--a secret meeting of the Romanian Iron Guard; Mussolini meeting the king of Italy; a rally of Hungarian doctors calling for restrictions on the number of Jews entering the profession. He then looks at the paradoxes of fascism through its origins in the political and social crisis of the late nineteenth century, the history of fascist movements and regimes in Italy and Germany, and the fortunes of "failed" fascist movements in Romania, Hungary and Spain. He shows how fascism employs propaganda and popular culture to propagate itself and how it exported its ideas outside Europe, through Nazi and Spanish post-war escape routes to Latin America. The book concludes with a discussion of the recent revival of the extreme right in Austria, Italy, France, and Russia.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Kevin Passmore is Lecturer in History at the University of Wales, Cardiff. His books includeFrom Liberalism to Fascism: The Right in a French Province, Writing National Histories: Western Europe Since 1800,The French Right: A History, and Women, Gender and the Extreme Right in Europe, 1919-1945.


Kevin Passmore is Lecturer in History at Cardiff University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0192801554
• ISBN 13: 9780192801555
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
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