Rethinking the Nature of Fascism

GIULIA ALBANESE Research Fellow, the University of Padova, ItalyMICHEL DOBRY Professor of Political Science, the Sorbonne (Université Paris I), FranceROGER EATWELL Professor of European Politics, the University of Bath, UKROGER GRIFFIN Professor of Modern History, Oxford Brookes University, UKARISTOTLE KALLIS Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Lancaster University, UKSTEIN U. LARSEN Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics, the University of Bergen, NorwayADRIAN LYTTELTON Professor of European Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Centre, ItalyKEVIN PASSMORE Lecturer in History, University of Cardiff, UK STANLEY G. PAYNE Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAJOHN POLLARD Fellow in History, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

• List of Illustrations Foreword; S.G.Payne Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Fascism and the other '-isms'; A.Costa Pinto PART I: FASCISM AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Decomposition and Recomposition of Theories: How to Arrive at Useful Ideas Explaining Fascism; S.U.Larsen Desperately Seeking a 'Generic Fascism': Some Discordant Thoughts on the Academic Recycling of Indigenous Categories; M.Dobry Fascism and Culture: A Mosse-Centric Meta-Narrative of how Fascist Studies Reinvented the Wheel; R.Griffin PART II: NEW APPROACHES Theories of Fascism: A Critique from the Perspective of Women's and Gender History; K.Passmore Fascism and Religion; J.Pollard Ideology, Propaganda, Violence and the Rise of Fascism; R.Eatwell Political Violence and Institutional Crisis in Interwar Southern Europe; G.Albanese Ruling Elites, Political Institutions and Decision-Making in Fascist-Era Dictatorships: Comparative Perspectives; A.Costa Pinto Fascism, 'Licence' and Genocide: from the Chimera of Rebirth to the Authorization of Mass Murder; A.Kallis Concluding Remarks; A.Lyttelton Index