Volume 43, Number 19 · November 28, 1996
The Uses of Fascism
By Robert O. Paxton
Fascism: Past, Present, Future
by Walter Laqueur
Oxford University Press, 263 pp., $25.00
A History of Fascism, 1914-1945
by Stanley G. Payne
University of Wisconsin Press, 613 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Is fascism back? The headlines might make one think so. Images of skinheads, ethnic cleansing, and nationalist demagogues assail us daily. Books about the general character of fascism, which had largely given way since the 1970s to an emphasis on what distinguished Italian Fascism from German Nazism,[1] are appearing again. Among them are works by two veteran observers of the European far right, Walter Laqueur and Stanley Payne.
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