ABSTRACT
214Of all the literature that collected around the interpretation of Fascism after World War II none is perhaps as interesting and sophisticated as that devoted to the analysis of Fascism as “totalitarian.” The literature is interesting and sophisticated because much of it is devoted to very serious methodological issues that are central to social science. The discussion that has grown up around the concept “totalitarianism” provides some measure of the increased methodological maturity that has come to characterize postwar social science.
