Fascists and Conservatives

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.