ABSTRACT

The two decades between 1919 and 1939 were the golden age of global fascism. The contribution discusses how a transimperial and global perspective on fascism changes our views on the temporal and geographic boundaries of the interwar. To do this, the first part focuses the 1922 March on Rome and its global impact. The second part shifts the focus to the turning of the year 1932/1933, which marked the first truly global moment of fascism. As the following shows, fascism’s genesis and further rise was intimately interlinked with European expansion, colonial technics of governance, racism, and violence.