Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe

PART I: THEORETICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES 1. The 'Fascist Effect': On the Dynamics of Political Hybridisation in Interwar Europe; Aristotle Kallis 2. Fascism and the Framework for Interactive Political Innovation During the Era of the Two World Wars; David Roberts 3. The Nature of 'Generic Fascism': Complexity and Reflexive Hybridity; Roger Eatwell 4. Fascism, Corporatism and the Crafting of Authoritarian Institutions in Interwar European Dictatorships; Antonio Costa Pinto PART II: CASE-STUDIES 5. The Coming of the Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Regime and the Stages of its Development; Gerhard Botz 6. Salazar's 'New State'. The Paradoxes of Hybridization in the Fascist Era; Goffredo Adinolfi and Antonio Costa Pinto 7. State and Regime in Early Francoism (1936-45): Power Structures, Main Actors and Repression Policy; Miguel Jerez Mir and Javier Luqu 8. Stages in the Development of the 'Fourth of August' Regime in Greece; Mogens Pelt 9. External Influences on the Evolution of Hungarian Authoritarianism, 1920- 1944; Jason Winterberg 10. A Continuum of Dictatorships: Hybrid Totalitarian Experiments in Romania, 1937-1944; Constantin Iordachi CONCLUSION Embracing Complexity and Transnational Dynamics: The Diffusion of Fascism and the Hybridization of Dictatorships in Interwar Europe