| | | Preface | | |
| | | Acknowledgements | | |
| | | List of abbreviations | | |
| | | Introduction: fascism in historiography | | 1 |
| 1 | | Generic fascism: an illusion? by Gilbert Allardyce | | 49 |
| 2 | | Fascism and the capitalist system: a Marxist view by Martin Kitchen | | 57 |
| 3 | | Fascism as latecomer: an ideal type with negations by Juan J. Linz | | 64 |
| 4 | | A spectral-syncretic approach to fascism by Roger Eatwell | | 71 |
| 5 | | Fascism as a generic concept by Stanley G. Payne | | 82 |
| 6 | | Fascism and its evolution in time: five stages by Roberto O. Paxton | | 89 |
| 7 | | An interwar Marxist analysis of fascism: Togliatti and Italian Communism by Palmiro Togliatti | | 105 |
| 8 | | Fascism as extremism of the middle class by Seymour Martin Lipset | | 112 |
| 9 | | The collapse of the bourgeois equilibrium of the 1920s and the rise of fascism by Charles S. Maier | | 120 |
| 10 | | Fascism as the product of crisis by Geoff Eley | | 129 |
| 11 | | Pre-conditions for fascisms success by Roger Griffin | | 137 |
| 12 | | The era of fascism and the uniqueness of fascist ideology by Ernst Nolte | | 149 |
| 13 | | Five main tenets of fascist ideology by Noel OSullivan | | 156 |
| 14 | | Fascist ideology: a dissident revision of Marxism? by Zeev Sternhell | | 165 |
| 15 | | Fascism: rebirth and ultra-nationalism by Roger Griffin | | 174 |
| 16 | | The ideal type of fascism: a retrodictive theory by Stanley Payne | | 182 |
| 17 | | Romania: the Iron Guard by Z. Barbu | | 195 |
| 18 | | Hungary: Horthy, Gombos and the Arrow Cross by Istvan Deak | | 201 |
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