The Men of the Archangel
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 10075296 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Eugen Weber (0000-0002-0339-3810, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1966 |
| Volumen | 1 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 101-126 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1966-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002200946600100107 |
| OpenAlex | W20313642 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 8 |
We are often told that fascist movements recruit most heavily among the middle or lower middle classes, a point which is supposed to show their essentially conservative or reactionary nature. This raises several questions. First: is the assertion factually correct? Do fascist or fascist-type movements actually draw their leaders and followers in significantly high proportions from the middle sections of society ? Second: is the concept of middle classes a meaningful one in this context? And last: is there something particularly reactionary about those groups among whom fascism recruits most heavily and, indeed, what are the particular characteristics of such groups ? If questions of this nature are more easily asked than answered, it is because information is thin on the ground. Analytical studies of party membership and party leadership are very scarce indeed. No study like Daniel Lerner's Nazi Elite has been devoted to other movements. Harold Lasswell and Renzo Sereno on 'Governmental and Party Leaders in Fascist Italy', published nearly thirty years ago,1 is not very helpful; Dante L. Germino's Italian Fascist Party in Power adds little on this score; the NSDAP has fared a little better, with Hans Gerth's essay (in Robert K. Merton, ed., Reader in Bureaucracy), Rudolf Heberle's studies of Schleswig-Holstein, written in the thirties and gathered in a slim but useful volume, From Democracy to Nazism, and Theodore Abel's very suggestive inquiry among Nazi Party members, Why Hitler Came Into Power. But that is about all. And in the absence of evidence, especially such evidence as would allow us to compare the recruitment and motivations of fascist movements in different countries and condi
Assertion · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Elite · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Nomination · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Reactionary · Classics · European history and politics · German legal, social, and political studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law
| Obras citantes distintas | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,13 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1966 - 2022 (57) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 8 |