Social science / Political science / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism

The Third Reich: A Concise History

by Martin Kitchen

Seventy years have passed since Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor, and in the intervening years a vast amount has been written on the origins and nature of the Third Reich. The years from 1933 to 1945 cast...

Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust

by Edwin Black

Nazi Nexus is the long-awaited wrap-up in a single explosive volume that details the pivotal corporate American connection to the Holocaust. The biggest names and crimes are all there. IBM and its facilitation...

Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz

by Eilat Negev & Yehuda Koren

During the 1930s and 40s the Lilliput Troupe, a beloved and successful family of singers and actors, dazzled with their vaudeville programme and unique performances. The only all-dwarf show of the time, their...

Analysing Fascist Discourse: European Fascism in Talk and Tex

by Ruth Wodak & John E. Richardson

This book focuses primarily on continuities and discontinuities of fascist politics as manifested in discourses of post-war European countries. Many traumatic pasts in Europe are linked to the experience of...

The Hitler Salute

by Tilman Allert

A strikingly original investigation of the origins and dissemination of the world's most infamous greeting

Sometimes the smallest detail reveals the most about a culture. In Heil Hitler: The History of a Gesture...

Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order

by Ivo Mosley

Democracy is not a universal good, it is a political system, and like all political systems it is open to corruption. The word 'democracy' means 'rule by the people', not rule by a simple majority. To achieve...

The Origins of Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history

The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central...

Syria

by David W. Lesch

When Syrian President Bashar al-Assad came to power upon his father's death in 2000, many in- and outside Syria held high hopes that the popular young doctor would bring long-awaited reform, that he would be...

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

by Jonah Goldberg

“Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them...

Hitlers Social Revolution

by David Schoenbaum

The author attempts to analyze Hitler's appeal to German farmers, workers, businessmen, industrialists, women and youth. Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, he demonstrates how Hitler...

The Man who Invented the Third Reich

by Stan Lauryssens

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck was a prolific writer, historian, art critic, translator and publisher; the quintissential Bohemian fin-de-siecle artist. In the turbulent years that followed the end of the First...

Hate: My Life in the British Far Right

by Matthew Collins

What do you do when everything you know and believe in crashes around you in a hail of fists and boots, flying chairs and broken glass? And not just once, but seemingly every time you leave the house? When it...

Mussolini's Intellectuals

by A. James Gregor

Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian...

Bilderberg People

by Ian Richardson, Andrew Kakabadse & Nada Kakabadse

Bilderberg People explores the hidden mechanisms of influence at work in the private world, and personal interactions, of the transnational power elite. It is not concerned with conspiracy theories; instead...

Nazism and War

by Richard Bessel

The Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, leaving millions dead and redrawing the political map in ways that continue to affect nearly the entire human race. What was unprecedented,...

Fascism: 100 Questions Asked and Answered

by Oswald Mosley

In this British Union of Fascist publication, Oswald Mosley answers 100 questions on BUF policies, on a wide range of issues. British Union was opposed to both Finance Capitalism (the private ownership of industry)...

The Coming Corporate State

by Alexander Raven Thomson

In his most important book 'The Coming Corporate State' Alexander Raven Thomson sets out in clear and precise terms the economic and political infrastructure that would be put in place once the British Union...

Fascism for the Million

by Oswald Mosley

Fascism for the Million - The New Movement Simplified. First published in 1936 by the British Union of Fascists, this book explains how the BUF planned on coming to power, and their proposals for the subjugation...

The Alternative

by Oswald Mosley

In 1947 Oswald Mosley published "The Alternative" in which he reviewed not only the past but his proposals for the creation of "Europe a Nation", and a three-tier order of governments in Europe. Mosley's concept...

The Evil Good Men Do

by Jeffrey Hamm