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Fascism Past and Present, West and East: An International Debate on Concepts and Cases in the Comparative Study of the Extreme Right (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 35) [Paperback]

Walter Laqueur , Roger Griffin , Werner Loh , Andreas Umland

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27 April 2006 3898216748 978-3898216746 1
In the opinion of some historians the era of fascism ended with the deaths of Mussolini and Hitler. Yet the debate about its nature as a historical phenomenon and its value as a term of historical analysis continues to rage with ever greater intensity, each major attempt to resolve it producing different patterns of support, dissent, and even hostility, from academic colleagues. Nevertheless, a number of developments since 1945 not only complicate the methodological and definitional issues even further, but make it ever more desirable that politicians, journalists, lawyers, and the general public can turn to 'experts' for a heuristically useful and broadly consensual definition of the term. These developments include: the emergence of a highly prolific European New Right, the rise of radical right populist parties, the flourishing of ultra-nationalist movements in the former Soviet empire, the radicalization of some currents of Islam and Hinduism into potent political forces, and the upsurge of religious terrorism. Most monographs and articles attempting to establish what is meant by fascism are written from a unilateral authoritative perspective, and the intense academic controversy the term provokes has to be gleaned from reviews and conference discussions. The uniqueness of this book is that it provides exceptional insights into the cut-and-thrust of the controversy as it unfolds on numerous fronts simultaneously, clarifying salient points of difference and moving towards some degree of consensus. Twenty-nine established academics, mostly German but including several prominent experts working in English, were invited by the periodical Erwägen Wissen Ethik (Deliberation Knowledge Ethics) to engage with an article by Roger Griffin, one of the most influential theorists in the study of generic fascism in the Anglophone world. The resulting debate progressed through two 'rounds' of critique and reply, forming a fascinating patchwork of consensus and sometimes heated disagreement. In a spin-off from the original discussion of Griffin's concept of fascism, a second exchange documented here focuses on the issue of fascist ideology in contemporary Russia. This collection is essential reading for all those who realize the need to provide the term 'fascism' with theoretical rigour, analytical precision, and empirical content despite the complex issues it raises, and for any specialist who wants to participate in fascist studies within an international forum of expertise. The book will change the way in which historians and political scientists think about fascism, and make the debate about the threat it poses to infant democracies like Russia more incisive not just for academics, but for politicians, journalists, and the wider public.

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The volume's contributors:

David Baker is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Warwick,
UK.

Jeffrey M. Bale is Assistant Professor of International Policy Studies at
the Mon-terey Institute of International Studies, California, USA.

Tamir Bar-On is Professor of Politics and Sociology at George Brown
College, Toronto, Canada.

Alexander De Grand is Professor of History at North Carolina State
University, USA.

Martin Durham is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of
Wolverhampton, UK.

Roger Eatwell is Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath,
UK.

Peter Fritzsche is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA.

A. James Gregor is Professor of Political Science at the University of
California at Berkeley, USA.

Roger Griffin is Professor in the History of Ideas at Oxford Brookes
University, UK.

Siegfried Jäger is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of
Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Klaus Holz is Director of the Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. at Villigst,
Nord-rhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Aristotle Kallis is Lecturer in European Studies at Lancaster University,
UK.

Melitta Konopka is a social psychologist at Bochum, Germany.

Walter Laqueur is Professor Emeritus of History at Georgetown University,
Wash-ington, DC, USA.

Werner Loh is a Research Fellow in Social Sciences at the University of
Pader-born, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Bärbel Meurer is Extraordinary Professor of Sociology at the University of
Os-nabrück, Germany.

Philip Morgan is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary European History at the
University of Hull, UK.

Ernst Nolte is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Free University
of Berlin, Germany.

Kevin Passmore is Lecturer in History at the University of Cardiff, Wales,
UK.

Stanley G. Payne is Hilldale-Jaume Vicens Vives Professor Emeritus of
History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Friedrich Pohlmann is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

Karin Priester is Professor of Sociology at the University of Münster,
Germany.

Sven Reichardt is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of
Kon-stanz, Germany.

David D. Roberts is Albert Berry Saye Professor of History at the
University of Georgia, USA.

Alfred Schobert is Research Fellow in Social Sciences at the Duisburger
Institut für Sprach- und Sozialforschung, Germany.

Robert J. Soucy is Professor Emeritus of History at Oberlin College,
Oberlin, Ohio, USA.

Mario Sznajder is Leon Blum Professor of Political Science at The Hebrew
Uni-versity of Jerusalem, Israel.

Andreas Umland is DAAD Lecturer in German Studies at the National Taras
Shevchenko University of Kyïv, Ukraine.

Leonard Weinberg is Foundation Professor of Political Science at the
University of Nevada, USA.

Jan Weyand is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Wolfgang Wippermann is Professor of Modern History at the Free University
of Berlin, Germany.


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