Talk:Fascism/suggested readings

message: To provide a word of caution to future writers, these topics, along with the nature of fascist and Nazi ideology, are often beaten like a dead horse in high schools, undergraduate institutions, and popular histories. Of course, few of us have not been, either directly or indirectly via family or friends, affected by the horrors of fascist brutality, so this is a natural area of interest in our greater culture. However, this article will need to be of a more academic nature, and effective in addressing the historical origins of fascism; rise, consolidation, and fall of fascist regimes; the social bases of support for fascist regimes; and the political economy of the fascist regimes. Often considered dry (and rarely the focus of best-selling works of history), these topics will offer a surprising amount of insights on the repressive and aggressive nature of European fascist regimes nevertheless.
On the political economy of fascist regimes, these would also be helpful:
* Alberto Aquarone's Italy: the Crisis and the Corporative Economy
* Kershaw's The Nazi Dictatorship. Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation
If there isn't anyone who's familiar with the literature on the origins of fascism and fascism as an international phenomenon, at least someone who's familiar with Moore's brilliant work (which should be read by everyone with a general interest in history and politics!!!) should revamp this article, and remove the politicized left vs. right 'talking points' (e.g., look, socialists in disguise!; or Orwell says this...; or look, they're just like contemporary conservatives!).
In short, this list could give new writers an impression of the best literature on fascism and some of the more influential analyses, arguments, and interpretations. We don't need a Blackbourn or a Kershaw to write this article, just someone broadly familiar enough with the various schools of thought of scholars to briefly introduce various fascist, Nazi, and fascist-like ideologies and the nature of fascist regimes in a more historical context. 172 12:12, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Political economy of the fascist regimes

message: :: Here are Adam Carr's comments and suggestions, posted on another page:
::"Having had a quick look at it, I think it starts reasonably well but then deteriorates. I think there needs to be a clearer distinction from the start between 
::*fascism as an ideology
::*fascism as a system of government
::*fascism as a political movement, both prewar and postwar
::Adam 12:37, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggested structure and organization for the article

message: I would like to achieve a compromise regarding this link. Any thoughts? Sam Spade 23:22, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't do this. Instead, why not expound it yourself? 172 06:28, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: That would be fine w me. My objection was to how it was presented. Sam Spade 03:45, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Talk:Fascism/suggested readings]] 

message: Well, here, for edification, is one of my grad student colleagues' reading lists on fascism (he had a whole field on fascism, so it should be pretty extensive.  Here goes:
===Models of Fascism===
[This section should be particularly useful, I think, for our purposes here]
====Fascism====
* Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies (homepage)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.151.246.130 (talk) 15:30, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Great work, John. Perhaps we ought to start a list of primary sources too. 172 09:37, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: More books

message: [This section should be particularly useful, I think, for our purposes here]
====Fascism====
* Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies (homepage)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.151.246.130 (talk) 15:30, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Models of Fascism

message: * Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies (homepage)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.151.246.130 (talk) 15:30, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Fascism

message: *Dahrendorf, Ralf, Society and Democracy in Germany, 1967.
*Blackbourn, David, and Eley, Geoff, The Peculiarities of German History, 1984.
*Elias, Norbert, The Germans, 1996.
*Moore, Barrington, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, 1966.
*Lewin, Moshe, The Making of the Soviet System, 1985.
*Engelstein, Laura, ‘Combined Underdevelopment: Discipline and the Law in Imperial and Soviet Russia’, American Historical Review, 1993, pp.338-81.
*Maier, Charles, ‘Consigning the Twentieth Century to History: Alternative Narratives for the Modern Era’, AHR 105, 30, June 2000.
*Arrighi, Giovanni, The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times, 1994.
That should be good for now, but there's a lot more to the list that I could put on, if there's interest.  I will admit to not having read many of these books, save Arendt, Blackbourn and Eley, and Barrington Moore (the latter two already mentioned by 172).  I'd note that the field, as conceived, was not just on fascism, but on the "short twentieth century" in general, and thus included discussion of communism, as well.  I imagine that everyone will now go out and start reading that old brownshirt Ernst Nolte now. john 08:59, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Great work, John. Perhaps we ought to start a list of primary sources too. 172 09:37, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Sonderweg