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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Can There Be History Teaching After Bucha?

April 22, 2022 Orel Beilinson 0

Before I was a historian, I was a history teacher. Before teaching history, I read Mein Kampf. My German teacher at the time—I was in […]

Whence Nationalism Studies? Some Reflections on Russia’s War in Ukraine

April 18, 2022 Chad Bryant 3

On March 4 protesters gathered in cities across Europe in support of Ukraine. In Prague, they filled the entirety of Wenceslaus Square, one of the […]

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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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