Fascism
Dados do Periódico
| Tipo | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Editora | Brill (NL) |
| ISSN | 2211-6249 / 2211-6257 |
| Scopus | 5800205583 |
| OpenAlex | S4210212767 |
| MAG | 4210212767 |
| Site | https://brill.com/view/journals/fasc/fasc-overview.xml |
| Total de publicações | 179 |
| Período coberto | 2012 - 2025 |
| País | NL |
| Idioma | EN |
| Acesso | Open Access |
| Indexação | DOAJ • Scopus |
| Citada por | 125 |
| Fator de impacto | 0.331 |
| SJR | 0.212 (Q1) |
| SNIP | 2.041 |
| CiteScore | 1.7 |
| Índice h | 4 |
| Índice i10 | 1 |
The journal "Fascism" focuses on the study of fascism, which falls under political science, history, and cultural studies. This area intersects with political anthropology, social/cultural history, and critical theory, making it a cognate social science and humanities venue
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The Matteotti Murder and Mussolini: The Anatomy of a Fascist Crime, by Mauro Canali; foreword by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
The Spanish Civil War as a Spatial Allegory for Japanese Anti-Fascism: Historical Experience and Political Limitations of a Liberal Approach to Popular Front Movements
With All My Strength, and If Necessary with My Blood: Corresponding and Diverging Representations of Violence and Self-Sacrifice in Fascist and National Socialist Youth Fiction
How Misogyny and Gendered Grievances Fuel Authoritarianism
Fascism, Radicalisation and War, 1914–1950s—Occupation, Counterinsurgency, Collaborationism, Civil War: The Seventh Convention of the International Association of Comparative Fascist Studies (ComFas)
Global Fascisms at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany: 12 September–7 December 2025
In the Name of ‘Civic Duty: Denunciations and Complaints against Jewish Citizens in the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945)
Whither Fascism? Fascist Studies in the Digital Age
In this editorial essay, the authors suggest that scholars of fascism can profitably pay greater attention to internet activism, digital subcultures, and online content. We explore this issue by calling for what we have termed ‘Fascism Studies 2.0’—a digital turn in the field of comparative fascist studies. The first section briefly delineates the importance of the internet in promoting contemporary forms of fascism and far-right activism, before…
The One Swallow That Makes a Summer
After 2010, Viktor Orbán and Fidesz, Hungary’s governing party, established a distinctive governmental and social system that has become a reference point for several right-wing politicians internationally. This system draws heavily on the intellectual traditions of mid-twentieth-century Hungarian authoritarian conservatism, as well as on domestic historical fascist and nationalist radical-right ideologies. This article advances two main argument…
Three Reflections on New Directions in Comparative Fascism Studies
In this article, three leading scholars of comparative fascism studies offer their thoughts and reflections on the state of the field. It seeks to stimulate debate and reflection on how to study fascism in the years to come and addresses a number of challenges facing this area of study. Aristotle Kallis focuses on the need to recognise the value of ‘associational’ perspectives, to highlight how fascism historically drew together a constellation o…
The US South’s Political Response to European Fascism during the Interwar War Period (1919–1939)
This article argues that the US South’s connections—commonalities, networks, and exchanges—and political response to European fascism were distinct from the rest of the United States during the interwar period. While the allegations of fascism levelled against the South by its critics were exaggerated, it was the US region that most closely mirrored the racial, labor, and political practices of fascist Europe during the 1930s. These similarities …
Where Monsters Are Born: Documenting a Fascist Revival in the Streets of Rome, 2018–2019’
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Echoes of Fascism
This paper examines how social exclusion and relative deprivation foster extremist ideologies among Muslim minorities and ethnic majorities in four Northwestern European countries and to what extent theories of fascism can help to unravel these contemporary trends. We identify three key findings based on extensive interview data from the DRIVE project. First, minority and majority participants express ideological positions sharing structural simi…
Anti-Fascism in European History: From the 1920s to Today , by Jože Pirjevec, Egon Pelikan, and Sabrina P. Ramet, eds
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Canadian Multiculturalism and the Far Right: Walter J. Bossy and the Origins of the ‘Third Force’, 1930s–1970s, by Bàrbara Molas
Saumyendranath Tagore and the Nazi Seizure of Power
This article examines the Nazi seizure of power from the perspective of Indian communist Saumyendranath Tagore (1901–1974). In the Weimar era, Berlin developed into a hub of transnational anti-colonial activism. After seizing power, the Nazis forcibly dismantled these networks and terrorized several leading members of the Indian diasporic community. In April 1933, Tagore was arrested for allegedly planning the assassination of Hitler. After fleei…
Fascism, Anti-Liberalism and Liberalism in Italy
Anti-liberalism is often highlighted as central to interpretations of fascism. This article discusses the existence of a liberal-fascist current in Italian Fascism. Very active during the first years of the Fascist government, this current was expressed in the pages of the journals La Nuova Politica Liberale , which brought together disciples of the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, and Critica Fascista , an organ of the revisionists led by Giuseppe …
Wake Up—John’: Proto-Fascist Anxieties and the Emotionology of the British Fascists
This article examines the published literatures of the British proto-fascist group the British Fascists ( BF ). It argues that, while failing to develop a ‘fully-fledged’ fascist ideology, the organisation’s materials fostered an emotionology, or instructions on how to think and feel, that contained some fascist qualities, especially profound anxieties over the nation facing an existential threat. It draws on conceptual framings from the history …
Fascism in Peru: From Revolutionary Union to Legionary Action and Ethnocacerism
Contemporary fascism is an understudied phenomenon in Latin America. As a contribution to this understudied area, this article analyzes the evolution of fascist thought in Peru from its interwar history to the twenty-first century. Following Roger Griffin’s influential ‘new consensus’ approach to fascism studies based on a fascist minimum, this study explores Peruvian fascism and will argue that fascism developed new expressions in the years afte…
The ‘New Catholicity’ of Fascism: Ernesto Giménez Caballero, the Italian Intellectual Network, and the Volta Conference of 1932
This article highlights the intellectual trajectory of the Spanish writer Ernesto Gimenez Caballero (1899–1988) as mediator of fascist internationalism during the 1930s. Caballero, a writer and journalists, was known in Italy thanks to important friendships with leading intellectual, diplomatic and political figures of the Fascist regime. His theory of fascist universalism, presented at the Volta Conference of 1932, identified fascism as the true…
The Duce’s Cheerleaders and the Führer’s Vanguard: The Dynamics of a Fascist Network of Girls’ Organizations
Regimes in the interwar years went to great lengths to educate young girls into their ideology. Fascist Italy had a few years head start—its Accademia fascista di educazione fisica femminile [Fascist Academy of Female Physical Education] was regarded as innovative from likeminded governments of the time, including Nazi Germany, and was the object of visits and attention. This article explores the arc drawn by relationships between Italian and Ger…
Crusade against Bolshevism: Cooperation between Fascists and Conservatives during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), many conservatives and fascists in Western Europe supported the Francoist rebels. This paper will outline how conservatives and fascists in Great Britain, France, and Belgium worked together to support the rebellion in Spain. Regarding Great Britain, the pressure group Friends of Nationalist Spain ( FNS ) will be studied, while for France and Belgium several different groups and individuals will be examin…
Making Austria German Again: Austrofascist ‘Home Guards’ against Nazi ‘Austrian Legionaries’, 1933–1934
Years before the Second World War, there emerged an Austrofascist Ständestaat [Corporatist State] to the south of Nazi Germany. This Ständestaat would be subsumed into Germany during the Anschluss of 1938. Subsumption of Austrofascism into Nazism has also occurred in understandings of fascism. This article centers two paramilitary organizations—an Austrian Nazi Legion based in Bavaria and the Austrian-based Heimwehren [Home Guards]—to argue that …
Fascist Transnationalism: The Networking between the German, Austrian, and Italian Radical Nationalist Milieux during the Long 1920s
The article argues that contact between the German, Austrian, and Italian radical nationalist milieux through the long 1920s represented a specific form of fascist relationship-building which should be understood in terms of fascist transnationalism: a cross-border networking process that took place against the backdrop of fluid, evolving social relationships. Starting from the analysis of the mutual exclusiveness of radical nationalist mobilizat…
Was There a Resistance Fascism: Narratives about Falange’s Place in the Franco Regime
Is it possible to identify traces of dissent or even resistance to Francoism within a single fascist party? Can there be elements of radical opposition within fascism in its long duration? This article’s discussion of this question, centered on the Spanish Falange’s case, will focus on two main topics that define the parameters of historiographical discussion of an idealized (‘authentic’, ‘pure’, ‘uncontaminated’, ‘rebellious’) fascism that may a…
Studying Fascism in a Postfascist Age. From New Consensus to New Wave? 1
The article suggests a way of mapping the remit for Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies by considering how far a “new consensus” has formed between specialists working in this area which conceptualizes fascism as a revolutionary form of ultra-nationalism that attempts to realize the myth of the regenerated nation. It is a myth which applied in practice creates a totalitarian movement or regime engaged in combating cultural, ethnic and…
The French New Right’s Quest for Alternative Modernity
The purpose of this paper is to offer a new interpretation of the French nouvelle droite (ND -New Right). The author argues that the ND is a heterogeneous, pan-European "school of thought" consisting of different ideological tendencies. Yet, contrary to the predominant interpretation of the revolutionary right as "anti-modern" and "reactionary", key ND thinkers, including its leader Alain de Benoist, are wedded to a revolutionary, alternative mod…
The Intellectual as Culture Warrior: Metapolitics and the European New Right
A major development on the European far right since 1945 is the turn to a ‘metapolitics’ supposedly influenced by the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci. Metapolitics, in this sense, deemphasizes electoral politics in favor of intellectual activism and the pursuit of ‘cultural hegemony’ as a prelude to seizing political power. This article examines the metapolitics of the European New Right ( ENR ) from a new theoretical and historical pers…
Ghostbusting Fascism: The Spectral Aspects of the Era of Fascism and Its Shape-Shifting Relationship to the Radical Right
This article seeks to exorcise some of fascism’s more haunting taxonomic horrors by focusing on the multiple ‘phantasmagorical’ aspects of comparative fascist studies which thwart attempts to achieve definitive resolutions of such nebulous and contested issues as its relationship to the radical right. It first considers the lasting traumatic effect on collective memories resulting from the catastrophic scale of inhumanity and casualties generated…
Mare Nostrum: Italy and the Mediterranean of Ancient Rome in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
The Mediterranean has occupied a prominent role in the political imaginary of Italian Fascisms, past and present. In the 1920s to the early 1940s, Fascist Italy’s imperial project used the concept of mare nostrum – our sea – taken from the vocabulary of Roman antiquity, to anchor modern Italian imperialism within the authority of the classical past. In the postwar years, following decolonization in Africa, mare nostrum receded from popular discou…
The Myth of the New Man in Italian Fascist Ideology
This article addresses the key concept of the New Man within Fascist ideology, often considered as means and end of the Fascist revolution by the Fascists. Usually dismissed as an empty slogan by historians, it is argued in the following pages that the myth of the New Man is essential for a better understanding of the regime’s totalitarian and revolutionary aspirations along with its quest of creating an alternative modernity and a post-liberal a…
The appeal of neo-fascism in times of crisis. The experience of CasaPound Italia
The present works sets up to analyze the relationship between radical right activism and the unfolding of the financial crisis in Europe, investigating the extent to which the current economic circumstances have influenced right-wing movements’ political supply and repertoires of action. Using the case study of the Italian neo-fascist group CasaPound, and based on a mix of historiography and ethnographic methods, the present work systematically a…
Debate: Donald Trump and Fascism Studies
Since coming to prominence, Donald Trump’s politics has regularly been likened to fascism. Many experts within fascism studies have tried to engage with wider media and political debates on the relevance (or otherwise) of such comparisons. In the debate ‘Donald Trump and Fascism Studies’ we have invited leading academics with connections to the journal and those who are familiar with debates within fascism studies, to offer thoughts on how to con…
CasaPound Italia: ‘Back to Believing. The Struggle Continues’
This article aims to be a contribution to the ongoing debate among scholars concerning the question whether recently formed right-wing radical parties represent a new phenomenon and a break with the fascist tradition or whether they remain close to a fascist ideology. The author focuses on a specific national radical right-wing party: CasaPound Italia ( cpi ), founded at the beginning of this century, which declares itself to be ‘fascist’. While …
Futures Made Present: Architecture, Monument, and the Battle for the ‘Third Way’ in Fascist Italy
During the late 1920s and 1930s, a group of Italian modernist architects, known as ‘rationalists’, launched an ambitious bid for convincing Mussolini that their brand of architectural modernism was best suited to become the official art of the Fascist state ( arte di stato ). They produced buildings of exceptional quality and now iconic status in the annals of international architecture, as well as an even more impressive register of ideas, desig…
Fascism by Popular Initiative: The Rise and Fall of the Vaps Movement in Estonia
The Estonian vaps movement was one of the most popular fascist-type movements in inter-war Europe, yet has received relatively little attention from researchers. This article traces the emergence of the vaps movement and examines its dramatic impact on Estonian politics, particularly the collapse of democracy and the emergence of authoritarian rule in the 1930s. It analyzes the factors that contributed to the success of the movement and the cause…
Home, Religion, Fatherland’: Movements of the Radical Right in Finland
This article charts the history of fascism in Finland and looks for the causes of its failure. Like most of its European contemporaries, Finnish nationalism was radicalized in similar processes which produced successful fascist movements elsewhere. After the end of the Great War, Finnish nationalists were engaged first in a bitter civil war, and then in a number of Freikorps -style attempts to expand the borders of the newly-made Finnish state. L…
Latvia’s Pērkonkrusts: Anti-German National Socialism in a Fascistogenic Milieu
Aside from equating it with Hitlerism, there have been few scholarly attempts to define national socialism and specify its relation to the broader category of fascism. This article posits that national socialisms are a sub-genus of fascism, where the distinguishing feature is an ultaranationalism based on a palingenetic völkisch racism, of which anti-Semitism is an essential element. Thus, national socialism is not just mimetic Hitlerism, as Hitl…
Universal Fascism and its Global Legacy. Italy’s and Japan’s Entangled History in the Early 1930s
In the early 1930s, fascism emerged as a global phenomenon. In Europe, Mussolini’s Italy was the driving force behind this development, whereas in Asia the center of gravity lay in the Japanese Empire. But the relationship between Japan and the mother country of fascism, Italy, in the interwar period has been hardly examined. The following article thus focuses on the process of interaction and exchange between these two countries. Moreover, the q…
On the ‘right’ side? The Radical Right in the Post-Yugoslav Area and the Serbian Case
The political transformation in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s was marked by the establishment of a nationalist political mainstream. As a consequence of the Yugoslav wars, nationalism gained broad acceptance in most post-Yugoslav societies. This led to the emergence of many radical right groups, the majority of which support the nationalist policies of the Yugoslav successor states. Since the regime changes in most post-Yugoslav states a…
The Iron Guard and the ‘Modern State’. Iron Guard Leaders Vasile Marin and Ion I. Moţa, and the ‘New European Order’
Historians and literary scholars still working in a Cold War paradigm cast Romanian Fascism as a form of reactionary resistance to liberal modernity, and not as a competing modernizing discourse and drive. Nevertheless, in a 1933 programmatic article, the Legionnaire leader, ideologue, and ‘martyr’ Vasile Marin wrote that political concepts such as ‘the Right,’ ‘the Left,’ and ‘extremism’ lost their relevance in Romania, as well as in Europe. The…
Fascism, National Socialism, and the 1939 New York World’s Fair
This article considers the involvement of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. It considers the form, function, and content of the Italian Pavilion designed for this fair and asserts that the prefabricated monumental structure would be best interpreted, not in isolation, but as an element of the larger architectural conversation which continued to unfold across contemporary fascist Europe. Such reconsideration of this…
Fascism’s Modernist Revolution: A New Paradigm for the Study of Right-wing Dictatorships
This article highlights the progress that has been made within fascist studies from seeing ‘fascist culture’ as an oxymoron, and assuming that it was driven by a profound animus against modernity and aesthetic modernism, to wide acceptance that it had its own revolutionary dynamic as a search for a Third Way between liberalism and communism, and bid to establish an alternative, rooted modern culture. Building logically on this growing consensus, …
The Cult of Roman Shukhevych in Ukraine: Myth Making with Complications
Ukrainian president Viktor Iushchenko’s posthumous designation of Roman Shukhevych (1907–1950), the supreme commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ( upa ) as a Hero of Ukraine in 2007 triggered intense, and polarized debates in Ukraine and abroad, about Second World War-era Ukrainian nationalism and its place in history. Particularly sensitive are Roman Shukhevych’s whereabouts in 1940–1943, when he served in German uniform, as a Hauptmann , o…
When Fascism Became Mainstream: The Challenge of Extremism in Times of Crisis
In the years between the two world wars a fledgling radical force that we today call ‘fascism’ was transformed from a tiny fringe movement into a dominant international political paradigm that challenged liberal ‘mainstream’ values and violently reversed decades of progressive change. Fascism’s spectacular and devastating success underlined how limited, resented, and reversible the alleged liberal consensus was in large parts of Europe during the…
Ikea Fascism: Metapedia and the Internationalization of Swedish Generic Fascism
Today’s European movements active within the spectrum of generic fascism have become sophisticated at internationalizing their ideology. This is illustrated in the present article through a study of the Swedish pan-European web encyclopaedia Metapedia, a fascist equivalent of the mainstream Wikipedia, working in the fields of metapolitics and gramscisme de Droite . The article argues that contemporary internationalization goes hand-in-hand with t…
The Factory of Illusions in the ‘Third Rome’
Although the site of the ancient Circus Maximus was one of the most loaded spaces of the Fascist ‘Third Rome’, it has received limited attention as a privileged site where a dizzying array of myths and illusions were entertained, simulated, and deposited as new Fascist layers on Rome’s urban and mnemonic palimpsest. Previously a decayed, ‘unsightly’, and overcrowded hodgepodge of layers of life, history, and memory, it was substantially restored,…
Was There a Resistance Fascism: Narratives about Falange’s Place in the Franco Regime
Is it possible to identify traces of dissent or even resistance to Francoism within a single fascist party? Can there be elements of radical opposition within fascism in its long duration? This article’s discussion of this question, centered on the Spanish Falange’s case, will focus on two main topics that define the parameters of historiographical discussion of an idealized (‘authentic’, ‘pure’, ‘uncontaminated’, ‘rebellious’) fascism that may a…
Fascist Transnationalism: The Networking between the German, Austrian, and Italian Radical Nationalist Milieux during the Long 1920s
The article argues that contact between the German, Austrian, and Italian radical nationalist milieux through the long 1920s represented a specific form of fascist relationship-building which should be understood in terms of fascist transnationalism: a cross-border networking process that took place against the backdrop of fluid, evolving social relationships. Starting from the analysis of the mutual exclusiveness of radical nationalist mobilizat…
Fascism, Anti-Liberalism and Liberalism in Italy
Anti-liberalism is often highlighted as central to interpretations of fascism. This article discusses the existence of a liberal-fascist current in Italian Fascism. Very active during the first years of the Fascist government, this current was expressed in the pages of the journals La Nuova Politica Liberale , which brought together disciples of the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, and Critica Fascista , an organ of the revisionists led by Giuseppe …
Diachronic and Cross-Cultural Comparison: Toward a Better Understanding of International Fascism
1) E.g.: Werner Loh and Wolfgang Wippermann, eds. Faschismus – kontrovers. Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius, 2003; Roger Griffin, Werner Loh and Andreas Umland, eds. Fascism Past and Present, West and East: An International Debate on Concepts and Cases in the Comparative Study of the Extreme Right. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2006. Diachronic and Cross-Cultural Comparison: Toward a Better Understanding of International Fascism
Questioning Fascism
Violence and Consensus in Fascism
Following the boom in Anglo-American research on fascism since the 1990s, comparative studies on fascism have gained renewed significance in continental Europe as well.Fascism, recent literature shows, cannot be defined according to a static catalogue of characteristics.The newer research is concerned more with processes and a comparison of the various paths taken by fascism.Scholars are now taking fascist self-descriptions and self-representatio…
The Fascist Challenge. Networks, Promises for the Future and Cultures of Violence in Europe, 1922 – 1945
This conference report comprises the contributions of European and American specialists in Fascism on the topic of networks, promises for the future and cultures of violence in Europe, 1922–1945. It was concluded that a much more in-depth examination of fascist networks, as well as their learning and acquisition processes is required, especially after 1939 and in the currently under-researched regions of Eastern and Southern-Eastern Europe. Secon…
Fascism and Art History: A Paradigm Shift
The Iron Guard and the ‘Modern State’. Iron Guard Leaders Vasile Marin and Ion I. Moţa, and the ‘New European Order’
Historians and literary scholars still working in a Cold War paradigm cast Romanian Fascism as a form of reactionary resistance to liberal modernity, and not as a competing modernizing discourse and drive. Nevertheless, in a 1933 programmatic article, the Legionnaire leader, ideologue, and ‘martyr’ Vasile Marin wrote that political concepts such as ‘the Right,’ ‘the Left,’ and ‘extremism’ lost their relevance in Romania, as well as in Europe. The…
Alain de Benoist. Mémoire vive. Paris: Éditions de Fallois, 2012. 330 p
At the age of almost 70, Alain de Benoist, the leading light -we could even say 'organic intellectual' -of the Nouvelle Droite retraces his life in a book of interviews.The book is very well written, which makes it a pleasant read.It will interest students of the Nouvelle Droite, a school of thought that Benoist helped to found in 1968.In the interviews, he provides us with information about the Groupement de recherches et d'études pour la civili…
The French New Right’s Quest for Alternative Modernity
The purpose of this paper is to offer a new interpretation of the French nouvelle droite (ND -New Right). The author argues that the ND is a heterogeneous, pan-European "school of thought" consisting of different ideological tendencies. Yet, contrary to the predominant interpretation of the revolutionary right as "anti-modern" and "reactionary", key ND thinkers, including its leader Alain de Benoist, are wedded to a revolutionary, alternative mod…
Introduction to M.S. Quine’s ‘Racial “Sterility” and “Hyperfecundity” in Fascist Italy’
For decades after the Second World War it was the received wisdom of historians that Nazism was biologically racist and dominated by eugenic thinking while Fascism rejected biologism in its conceptualization of the nation and nationalist revolution. So deeply engrained was this assumption that when both Zeev Sternhell and James Gregor refused to accept Nazism as a member of the ‘family of fascism’ on account of its biological racism they caused l…
What fascism is not and is. Thoughts on the re-inflation of a concept
This new section of the journal is polemical in intent and sets out to stimulate debate. For submission of your contributions (max. 800 words) please visit the website (brill.com/fascism). The journal’s consultant editor Roger Griffin sets the ball rolling
The Spectacle of Security in the Case of Hungarian Far-Right Paramilitary Groups
This paper takes up the emergence of far-right patrols in Hungary in 2011 and provides an interpretation that is centered on security as a need, a practice, and a discourse. The argument is that these patrols used a logic of spectacle in order to legitimize their security agenda, an agenda that was driven by both symbolic and explicit violence. The patrols emerged in the context of a steady growth in and acceptance of far-right ideas and practice…
Fascist Ideologues. Past and Present: Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-Fascist Studies Teesside University, 4-5 July 2013
This international conference, organised by Teesside University in conjunction with the University of Cambridge (John Pollard), offered a variety of perspectives on leading fascist and far-right ideologues over the course of the twentieth (and into the twenty-first) century. Focusing upon the historical impact and contemporary influence of key far-right figures and intellectual trends (such as transnationalism and meta-politics), the conference b…
Universal Fascism and its Global Legacy. Italy’s and Japan’s Entangled History in the Early 1930s
In the early 1930s, fascism emerged as a global phenomenon. In Europe, Mussolini’s Italy was the driving force behind this development, whereas in Asia the center of gravity lay in the Japanese Empire. But the relationship between Japan and the mother country of fascism, Italy, in the interwar period has been hardly examined. The following article thus focuses on the process of interaction and exchange between these two countries. Moreover, the q…
Russian Fascism in Exile. A Historical and Phenomenological Perspective on Transnational Fascism
Based on the example of Russian fascism in Harbin, Manchuria, this paper demonstrates how the concept, ‘transnational’ can relate to fascism in three ways: as a transnational phenomenon, as a transnational movement and in terms of the study of fascism from a transnational perspective, focusing on the relations and exchanges between fascist movements and how fascism crossed borders. One way of approaching implementing this perspective is to focus …
We Will Never Leave.’ The Reale Accademia d’Italia and the Invention of a Fascist Africanism
At the beginning of November 1938 the Reale Accademia d’Italia , the official cultural institution of the Italian Fascist regime, organized a conference on Africa. Mussolini himself had chosen the theme for the conference and major Italian political figures, such as De Vecchi and Balbo, delivered papers, together with French, English and German politicians and scholars. The conference, organized in the same year of Hitler’s visit to Italy and of …
Renewed Latvia. A Case Study of the Transnational Fascism Model
This article examines the lesser-known authoritarian regime of Kārlis Ulmanis, the Vadonis [Leader] of Latvia from 1934-1940, as a case study of transnational fascism. Specifically, by investigating the nature of Mazpulki [Latvian 4-H] – an agricultural youth organization modeled on American 4-H which became during the Ulmanis regime a sort of unofficial ‘Ulmanis Youth’ institution – and its international connections, and particularly with Italy,…
Separatist Currents in Moravian Fascism and National Socialism
The article deals with separatism within Moravian fascism and National Socialism. It identifies fundamental links between ethnic nationalism and fascism, and describes the development of the ‘Moravian question’ within the context of Central European history. The separatist tendencies of Moravian fascism and National Socialism are examined in the context of the interwar history, the period of occupation of the Czech lands, and postwar developments…
Robert Grunert, Der Europagedanke westeuropäischer faschistischer Bewegungen 1940-1945 (Paderborn: (Ferdinand Schöningh, 2012)
Robert Grunert, Der Europagedanke westeuropäischer faschistischer
Monica Cioli, Il fascismo e la ‘sua’ arte: Dottrina e istituzioni tra futurismo e Novecento (Florence: Olschki, 2011)
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Fernando Esposito, Mythische Moderne: Aviatik, Faschismus und die Sehnsucht nach Ordnung in Deutschland und Italien (Oldenbourg: Munich, 2011)
Dutch Face-ism. Portrait Photography and Völkisch Nationalism in the Netherlands
This article takes its cue from an essay by Gerhard Richter on Walter Benjamin and the fascist aestheticization of politics. It examines the portrait photography of Dutch photographer W.F. Van Heemskerck Düker, who was a true believer in the ideology of a Greater Germany. He published a number of illustrated books on the Dutch Heimat and worked together with German photographers Erna Lendvai-Dircksen and Erich Retzlaff. When considering what type…
Aline Sax, Voor Vlaanderen, volk en Führer: De motivatie van Vlaamse collaborateurs tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, 1940-1945 (Antwerpen: Manteau, 2012) [For Flandres, the People and the Führer: Flemi…
On the ‘right’ side? The Radical Right in the Post-Yugoslav Area and the Serbian Case
The political transformation in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s was marked by the establishment of a nationalist political mainstream. As a consequence of the Yugoslav wars, nationalism gained broad acceptance in most post-Yugoslav societies. This led to the emergence of many radical right groups, the majority of which support the nationalist policies of the Yugoslav successor states. Since the regime changes in most post-Yugoslav states a…
The appeal of neo-fascism in times of crisis. The experience of CasaPound Italia
The present works sets up to analyze the relationship between radical right activism and the unfolding of the financial crisis in Europe, investigating the extent to which the current economic circumstances have influenced right-wing movements’ political supply and repertoires of action. Using the case study of the Italian neo-fascist group CasaPound, and based on a mix of historiography and ethnographic methods, the present work systematically a…
The ‘Right’ Side of the Law. State of Siege and the Rise of Fascism in Interwar Romania
The aim of this article is to problematize one of the most audacious tenets of the new consensus, namely the revolutionary character of fascism, by linking together the experience of the state of siege and the emergence of the fascist movement in interwar Romania. It tries to do so by drawing on the philosophical underpinnings of the paradigm of the state of exception developed by Giorgio Agamben and Walter Benjamin’s critique of law and violence…