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An Open Letter in Defense of Academic Freedom and the Historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe

January 22, 2026 Editorial Board 0

We, the undersigned, protest against the state-sponsored defamatory attacks on the German-Polish Holocaust historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe and the ongoing campaign of intimidation against scholars and […]

A Century Later: A Renewed Open Letter Against the Return of Fascism

June 14, 2025 Editorial Board 0

On May 1st 1925, with Mussolini already in power, a group of Italian intellectuals publicly denounced Mussolini’s fascist regime in an open letter. The signatories […]

I Shall Bear Witness – Victor Klemperer in His Time, and Ours

February 8, 2025 Adam Blackler 0

Victor Klemperer’s diary is a remarkable testimony on life in Nazi Germany told from the perspective of someone whom the state sought to eradicate from the population—and it makes for chilling reading today.

Review: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen

February 8, 2025 Jennifer McFeeters 0

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021. The United States’ recently-held presidential election in November 2024 has thrown […]

Between Legacy and Revisionism: Lech Wałęsa’s Iconic Journey in the Shifting Landscape of Polish History

September 29, 2023 Lidia Zessin-Jurek 1

To mark the 70th birthday of Lech Wałęsa in 2013, the Polish Post issued a commemorative stamp. This year’s 80th birthday of the Solidarity leader, […]

Letter of Support for Scholars in Poland

June 2, 2023 Editorial Board 0

We, the editors of the New Fascism Syllabus, condemn the suppression of academic freedom in Poland and the recent attacks on our colleagues, Dr. Barbara […]

How Frodo Baggins Resurrected Italy’s Far-Right Movement

June 2, 2023 Fighting Fascist Fantasy 0

This weblog article was originally written for Dr. Jennifer Evans’ upper-division seminar, “Populism and Authoritarianism in Contemporary Europe,” at Carleton University. To view more entries […]

The Illusion of Control: A Historiographical Essay on the Capabilities and Limits of Fascist Authority

April 21, 2023 Dylan Du 0

This review essay was originally written for Dr. Brian J Griffith’s upper-division reading seminar, “Comparative Fascisms: 1920s to the Present,” at University of California, Los […]

With October in Our Memory, We Will Change History

September 17, 2022 Hannah Katalin Grimmer 0

The result of the plebiscite and the clear rejection of the new constitution in Chile says a lot about its historical development since the end […]

How to Keep the Lights On in Democracies: An Open Letter of Concern by Scholars of Authoritarianism

October 31, 2020 Editorial Board 3

Regardless of the outcome of the United States’ election, democracy as we know it is already imperiled. However, it is not too late to turn […]

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The #NewFascismSyllabus is a crowd-sourced collection of scholarly writings on the history of fascist, authoritarian, and right-wing populist movements and governments. It is intended to serve as an entryway into the scholarly literature for those seeking deeper insights into how past societies have gravitated towards authoritarianism, and seeks to provide comparative perspectives on how everyday people, as well as cultural authorities and civil institutions, coped and, in some cases, resisted these changes.

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  • An Open Letter in Defense of Academic Freedom and the Historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe January 22, 2026
  • A Century Later: A Renewed Open Letter Against the Return of Fascism June 14, 2025
  • I Shall Bear Witness – Victor Klemperer in His Time, and Ours February 8, 2025
  • Review: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen February 8, 2025
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