The anatomy of fascism / Robert O. Paxton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Knopf, 2004.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 321 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1400040949
  • 9781400040940
  • 9781400033911
  • 1400033918
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Anatomy of fascism.; Online version:: Anatomy of fascism.DDC classification:
  • 321.94 22
LOC classification:
  • JC481 .P373 2004
  • D726.5 .P39 2004
NLM classification:
  • 000112448
Online resources:
Contents:
Creating fascist movements -- Taking root -- Getting power -- Exercising power -- The long term : radicalization or entropy? -- Other times, other places -- What is fascism?
Review: "What is fascism? Many authors have proposed succinct but abstract definitions. Robert O. Paxton prefers to start with concrete historical experience. He focuses more on what fascists did than on what they said. Their first uniformed bands beat up "enemies of the nation," such as communists and foreign immigrants, during the tense days after 1918 when the liberal democracies of Europe were struggling with the aftershocks of World War I. Fascist parties could not approach power, however, without the complicity of conservatives willing to sacrifice the rule of law for security." "Paxton makes clear the sequence of steps by which fascists and conservatives together formed regimes in Italy and Germany, and why fascists remained out of power elsewhere." "This book, based on a lifetime of research, will have a lasting impact on our understanding of twentieth-century history."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-249) and index.

Creating fascist movements -- Taking root -- Getting power -- Exercising power -- The long term : radicalization or entropy? -- Other times, other places -- What is fascism?

"What is fascism? Many authors have proposed succinct but abstract definitions. Robert O. Paxton prefers to start with concrete historical experience. He focuses more on what fascists did than on what they said. Their first uniformed bands beat up "enemies of the nation," such as communists and foreign immigrants, during the tense days after 1918 when the liberal democracies of Europe were struggling with the aftershocks of World War I. Fascist parties could not approach power, however, without the complicity of conservatives willing to sacrifice the rule of law for security." "Paxton makes clear the sequence of steps by which fascists and conservatives together formed regimes in Italy and Germany, and why fascists remained out of power elsewhere." "This book, based on a lifetime of research, will have a lasting impact on our understanding of twentieth-century history."--Jacket.

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