By Philip Morgan
ISBN-10: 0203269667
ISBN-13: 9780203269664
ISBN-10: 0203448227
ISBN-13: 9780203448229
ISBN-10: 0415169429
ISBN-13: 9780415169424
Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945 surveys the phenomenon that is nonetheless the item of curiosity and debate over fifty years after its defeat within the moment global struggle. It introduces the hot scholarship and carrying on with debates at the nature of fascism in addition to the customarily contentious contributions by means of international historians and political scientists. From the pre-First global conflict highbrow origins of Fascism to its dying in 1945, this publication examines: * the 2 'waves' of fascism - within the quick post-war interval and within the overdue Nineteen Twenties and early Nineteen Thirties* no matter if the ecu concern created by way of the Treaty of Versailles allowed fascism to take root* why fascism got here to strength in Italy and Germany, yet no longer at any place else in Europe* fascism's personal declare to be a global and internationalist flow* the assumption of 'totalitarianism' because the most valuable and applicable manner of studying the fascist regimes.
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Setting the historical context also makes it possible to provide a passable working definition of fascism. Fascist movements were radical hypernationalist cross-class movements with a distinctive militarist organisation and activist political style. In a climate of perceived national danger and 14 Introduction crisis, they sought the regeneration of their nations through the violent destruction of all political forms and forces which they held to be responsible for national disunity and divisiveness, and the creation of a new national order based on the moral or ‘spiritual’ reformation of their peoples, a ‘cultural revolution’ achievable only through the ‘total’ control of society, and on class-collaborative, regulatory forms of socio-economic organisation, often of a corporatist nature.
Fascist movements were radical hypernationalist cross-class movements with a distinctive militarist organisation and activist political style. In a climate of perceived national danger and 14 Introduction crisis, they sought the regeneration of their nations through the violent destruction of all political forms and forces which they held to be responsible for national disunity and divisiveness, and the creation of a new national order based on the moral or ‘spiritual’ reformation of their peoples, a ‘cultural revolution’ achievable only through the ‘total’ control of society, and on class-collaborative, regulatory forms of socio-economic organisation, often of a corporatist nature.
In Central Europe, the defeated Germany had lost territory in the east and the west, but it had been spared occupation, partition and dismemberment. A defeated and largely territorially intact Germany was still capable of being the strongest continental European power, if only by natural political and economic weight or potential. ‘The German problem’, the terms and conditions on which Germany could exercise its naturally pivotal position in European affairs, was the divisive European issue in the period 1918 to 1945.