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Vintage
March 2005
On Sale: March 8, 2005
336 pages
ISBN: 1400033918
EAN: 9781400033911
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Historical | Non-Fiction
What is fascism? Many authors have proposed
definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract. The
esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question
for the first time by focusing on the concrete: what the
fascists did, rather than what they said. From the first
violent uniformed bands beating up “enemies of the state,”
through Mussolini’s rise to power, to Germany’s fascist
radicalization in World War II, Paxton shows clearly why
fascists came to power in some countries and not others, and
explores whether fascism could exist outside the
early-twentieth-century European setting in which it
emerged.
The Anatomy of Fascism will have a
lasting impact on our understanding of modern European
history, just as Paxton’s classic Vichy France
redefined our vision of World War II. Based on a lifetime of
research, this compelling and important book transforms our
knowledge of fascism–“the major political innovation of the
twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.”
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