2nd edition. A succinct history of fascism, from its pre-WW1 origins to the contemporary resurgence of the far right, drawing on recent transnational research.

• 1: 'A and not A': what is fascism?


• 2: Fascism before fascism?


• 3: Italy: 'making history with the fist'


• 4: Germany: the racial state


• 5: The diffusion of fascism


• 6: Phoenix from the ashes?


• 7: Fascism, nation, and race


• 8: Fascism, women, and gender


• 9: Fascism and class


• 10: Fascism and us


• Further reading


• index

Dr Kevin Passmore is a Reader in History at Cardiff University. His The Right in the Third Republic was published by OUP in November 2012. He has continued to publish widely on fascism since publication of the VSI in 2002, but has also written on the history of the social sciences and historical writing.