1st Edition

Fascists and Conservatives The radical right and the establishment in twentieth-century Europe

By Martin Blinkhorn Copyright 1990
    298 Pages
    by Routledge

    300 Pages
    by Routledge

    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 at. This volume is intended to assist the further consideration of these and related problems.

    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, 1912–28, Geoff Eley; Chapter 5 German Conservatives and the Third Reich: an ambiguous relationship, Jeremy Noakes; Chapter 6 Conservatives and fascists in Austria, 1918–34, Jill Lewis; Chapter 7 Conservatism, traditionalism and fascism in Spain, 1898–1937, Martin Blinkhorn; Chapter 8 Populism and parasitism: the Falange and the Spanish establishment 1939–75, Paul Preston; Chapter 9 Conservatism, dictatorship and fascism in Portugal, 1914–45, Tom Gallagher; Chapter 10 The conservative right and the far right in France: the search for power, 1934–44, Roger Austin; Chapter 11 Conservatism, authoritarianism and fascism in Greece, 1915–45, 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, 1918–45, Stein U. Larsen; Chapter 14 Conservatism and the failure of fascism in interwar Britain, John Stevenson;

    Biography

    Martin Blinkhorn