{"product_id":"the-anatomy-of-fascism-9781400040940","title":"The Anatomy of Fascism","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of Vichy France  a fascinating  authoritative history of fascism in all its manifestations  and how and why it took hold in certain countries and not in others.  What is fascism? Many authors have proposed succinct but abstract definitions. Robert O. Paxton prefers to start with concrete historical experience. He focuses more on what fascists did than on what they said. Their first uniformed bands beat up enemies of the nation  such as communists and foreign immigrants  during the tense days after 1918 when the liberal democracies of Europe were struggling with the aftershocks of World War I. Fascist parties could not approach power  however  without the complicity of conservatives willing to sacrifice the rule of law for security.  Paxton makes clear the sequence of steps by which fascists and conservatives together formed regimes in Italy and Germany  and why fascists remained out of power elsewhere. Fascist regimes were strained alliances. While fascist parties had broad political leeway  conservatives preserved many social and economic privileges. Goals of forced national unity  purity  and expansion  accompanied by propaganda-driven public excitement  held the mixture together. War opened opportunities for fascist extremists to pursue these goals to the point of genocide. Paxton shows how these opportunities manifested themselves differently in France  in Britain  in the Low Countries  and in Eastern Europeand yet failed to achieve supreme power. He goes on to examine whether fascism can exist outside the specific early-twentieth-century European setting in which it emerged  and whether it can reappear today. This groundbreaking book  based on a lifetime of research  will have a lasting impact on our understanding of twentieth-century history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45495904403509,"sku":"ByrdShop_1400040949","price":40.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781400040940.jpg?v=1780902983","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-anatomy-of-fascism-9781400040940","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}