ABSTRACT

This book features a broad range of thematic and national case studies which explore the interrelations and confrontations between conservatives and the radical Right in the European and global contexts of the interwar years.

It investigates the political, social, cultural, and economic issues that conservatives and radicals tried to address and solve in the aftermaths of the Great War. Conservative forces ended up prevailing over far-right forces in the 1920s, with the notable exception of the Fascist regime in Italy. But over the course of the 1930s, and the ascent of the Nazi regime in Germany, political radicalisation triggered both competition and hybridisation between conservative and right-wing radical forces, with increased power for far-right and fascist movements.

The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of politics, history, fascism, and Nazism.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|23 pages

“Laboratory for world destruction”

The Habsburg Monarchy and fascism

chapter 2|24 pages

Volksdeutsch revisionism

East Central Europe’s ethnic Germans and the order of Paris

chapter 3|28 pages

Conservative and radical dynamics of Italian Fascism

An (East) European perspective (1918–1938)

chapter 5|25 pages

Integral nationalism in the absence of a nation-state

The case of Ukraine

chapter 6|24 pages

Catholic authoritarians or fascists as such?

The Polish rightist subculture turns fascist (1919–1939)

chapter 7|26 pages

Faith, family and fatherland

Conservatism and right radicalism in interwar Hungary

chapter 8|22 pages

The Romanian Right

Images of crisis, the press and the rise of fascism

chapter 10|20 pages

Dynamics of division

The French Right (1918–1941)

chapter 11|21 pages

Consecrating the fatherland

Catholicism, nationalism and fascism in Spain (1919–1939)

chapter 12|22 pages

In the mirror of fascism

Portugal and the Italian experience

chapter 13|17 pages

America as alternative to European radicalism?

The United States and the transnational rise of the Right

chapter 14|15 pages

Fascism after fascism

History and politics