Stephen Turner is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of South Florida, Dirk Käsler is Professor of Sociology at Hamburg University.

• Chapter 1 Sociology and Fascism in the Interwar Period, Stephen P. Turner; Chapter 2 Outsiders and True Believers, Gerald Mozeti?; Chapter 3 Ambiguous Influences, Marta Losito, Sandro Segre; Chapter 4 Academic Discussion or Political Guidance?, Dirk Käsler, Thomas Steiner; Chapter 5 Social-Scientific Experts—No Ideologues, Carsten Klingemann; Chapter 6 ‘Sociologists’, Sociographers, and ‘Liberals’, Dénes Némedi; Chapter 7 Principle, Politics, Profession, Robert C.Bannister; Chapter 8 Responses to Fascism in Britain, 1930–1945, Peter Lassman;