Fascists Conservatives Europ [Hardcover]

Chapter 1 Introduction Allies, rivals, or antagonists? Fascists and conservatives in modern Europe, Martin Blinkhorn; Chapter 2 Italian fascism: radical politics and conservative goals, Roland Sarti; Chapter 3 Conservative Catholics and Italian fascism: the Clerico-Fascists, John Pollard; Chapter 4 Conservatives and radical nationalists in Germany: the production of fascist potentials, 191228, Geoff Eley; Chapter 5 German Conservatives and the Third Reich: an ambiguous relationship, Jeremy Noakes; Chapter 6 Conservatives and fascists in Austria, 191834, Jill Lewis; Chapter 7 Conservatism, traditionalism and fascism in Spain, 18981937, Martin Blinkhorn; Chapter 8 Populism and parasitism: the Falange and the Spanish establishment 193975, Paul Preston; Chapter 9 Conservatism, dictatorship and fascism in Portugal, 191445, Tom Gallagher; Chapter 10 The conservative right and the far right in France: the search for power, 193444, Roger Austin; Chapter 11 Conservatism, authoritarianism and fascism in Greece, 191545, David Close; Chapter 12 Fascists and conservatives in Romania: two generations of nationalists, Irina Livezeanu; Chapter 13 Conservatives antifascists in the Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, 191845, Stein U. Larsen; Chapter 14 Conservatism and the failure of fascism in interwar Britain, John Stevenson;First Published in 1990. During the last twenty years, prodigious scholarly effort has gone into the study of fascism and the right in twentieth-century Europe. Quite apart from the study of particular fascist and national socialist movements and of individual right-wing regimes (Fascist Italy, the Third Reich, Franco's Spain, etc.), scholars have striven to locate the essential nature of fascism; to determine what is distinctive about its ideas, programmes, policies and support; to identify what, if anything, differentiates it from other forms of rightism; and to decide whether a satisfactory definition of 'fascism' can be arrived atl“8