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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 […]

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 […]

Jewish and Democratic? The Boomerang Effect

January 25, 2023 Omer Bartov 2

Hannah Arendt famously suggested that the rise of totalitarianism in Europe was the boomerang effect of the violence, oppression, and denial of rights by European […]

Why Gender Will Be a Key Battleground in Israel’s Fight Against the Illiberal State

January 17, 2023 Andrea Peto 0

This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, Haaretz   The news that Israel’s […]

Russia, the Dutch Far Right, and the Politics of World War II Remembrance

July 7, 2022 Jazmine Contreras 12

Since the most recent phase of Russia’s eight-year-long conquest of Ukraine began in late February 2022, much of Europe has mobilized politically against the Russian […]

“Sieferle von links”: A Fair Criticism?

May 28, 2021 Helmut Walser Smith 2

Unfortunately, in one crucial aspect, yes. The problem lies in the reified religious language of Dirk Moses’s polemic, concentrated in his evocation of Heinrich von […]

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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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