Volume 14, Number 3 · February 12, 1970
What Is Fascism?
By Leonard Schapiro
The Nature of Fascism
edited by S.J. Woolf
Random House, 262 pp., $7.95
Die Deutsche Diktatur Enstehung Struktur Folgen des Nationalsozialismus
by Karl Dietrich Bracher
Kiepenhauer and Witsch (Köln), 580 pp., 36DM
The History of the Nazi Party 1919 to 1933
by Dietrich Orlow
University of Pittsburgh, 338 pp., $11.95
The Limits of Hitler's Power
by Edward N. Peterson
Princeton, 495 pp., $12.50
'Let us not lose ourselves in the systems: let us listen to the voice of history.' De Maistre's advice can still be heeded with profit, as a recently published symposium amply demonstrates. Its theme was 'the nature of fascism': more than two dozen scholars, mainly either historians or sociologists, assembled in Reading, England, in the spring of 1967 to discuss this 'nature.' The difficulty about discussing any such vague generalization as 'fascism' is that it is a term which has been abstracted from concrete, historical situations.
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