Table of Contents

Introduction
Ideas and Formative Experience
1: Kevin Passmore: The ideological origins of Fascism before 1914
2: Alan Kramer: The First World War as Cultural Trauma
3: Richard Bessel: World War One as Totality
4: Glenda Sluga: The Aftermath of War
The First Fascist Nation
5: Mimmo Franzinelli: Squadrism
6: Guido Bonsaver: Culture and Intellectuals
7: Roger Absalom: The Peasant Experience Under Italian Fascism
8: Philip Morgan: Corporatism and the Economic Order
9: John Pollard: Fascism and Catholicism
10: Patrizia Dogliani: Propaganda and Youth
11: Perry Willson: Women in Mussolini's Italy 1922-45
12: Mauro Canali: Crime and Repression
13: Davide Rodogno: Fascism and War
14: Richard Bosworth: Dictators, Strong or Weak? The Model of Benito Mussolini
The Nazi Comparison
15: Gustavo Corni: State and Society: Italy and Germany Compared
16: Robert Gordon: Race
17: Jim Burgwyn: Diplomacy and World War: the (first) Axis of Evil
Others
18: Roger Markwick: Communism: Fascism's 'other'?
19: Mary Vincent: Spain
20: Mark Pittaway: Hungary
21: Radu Ioanid: Romania
22: Marko Attila Hoare: Yugoslavia and its successor states
23: Corinna Peniston-Bird: Austria
24: Bob Moore: The Netherlands
25: Bruno de Wever: Belgium
26: Martin Pugh: Britain and its Empire
27: Joan Tumblety: France
28: Rikki Kersten: Japan
Reflection and Legacies
29: Robert Paxton: Comparisons and Definitions
30: Nathan Stoltzfus and Richard Bosworth: Memory and Representations of Fascism in Germany and Italy
31: Anna Cento Bull: Neofascism

Reviews

`This is a welcome contribution to the study of the interwar extreme right and it will soon become an essential reading for both experts in the field and new students of fascism...an excellent volume.
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Andrea Mammone, e-Extreme
`This valuable collection brings readers the latest research and thinking and will prove invaluable to students of the twentieth century.
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Contemporary Review
`...offer[s] the reader access to many complex and fascinating episodes and aspects in fascism's history...
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Roger Griffin, English Historical Review
`An expert, and up-to-date representation of the "state of the art" of research into fascism, this is a volume that serious scholars of Europe's "Age of Extremes" will want to have on their bookshelves.
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Andrew G. Bonnell, Australian Journal of Politics and History