Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
About the Book Series
This book series focuses upon national, transnational and global manifestations of fascist, far right and right-wing politics primarily within a historical context but also drawing on insights and approaches from other disciplinary perspectives. Its scope also includes anti-fascism, radical-right populism, extreme-right violence and terrorism, cultural manifestations of the far right, and points of convergence and exchange with the mainstream and traditional right.
Fascist Legacies and the New Right Across the Atlantic: Back to the Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriela de Lima Grecco
December 16, 2025
This volume analyzes the historical continuities and transformations of fascist movements across Ibero-America, Europe, and the United States from the 20th to the 21st century. By examining political ideologies, networks, and transnational influences, the chapters explore how authoritarian and ...
On Christian Nationalism: Critical and Theological Perspectives
1st Edition
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By David M. Gides, Joan Braune
November 26, 2025
Since the January 6, 2021 coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol, Christian nationalism has widely been called the “greatest threat to democracy in the United States.” Yet academics and activists present many conflicting definitions and solutions. On Christian Nationalism: Critical and Theological ...
Radical Right Ideologues in the Age of Trump: Heralds of Nihilism
1st Edition
By Ronald Beiner
November 18, 2025
Radical Right Ideologues in the Age of Trump offers a series of sketches of what it means to live within a new Zeitgeist where ideas of the radical right are once again attractive to young minds. The book first zeroes in on Nietzsche as a privileged philosophical source for the contemporary radical...
Pro-Russian Organizations in Poland after 1986: Agents of Chaos
1st Edition
By Przemysław Witkowski
November 13, 2025
This book shows how, for thirty years, Russia has been supporting its agents of influence and allies in a seemingly highly hostile society - Poland. Conspiracy narratives, ideological harmony, and old alliances from the period of the Eastern Bloc are primarily the glue that binds the Russian ...
Transnational and Transatlantic Fascism, 1918–2018: The Far Right in East Central and Southeastern Europe
1st Edition
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By Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Per Anders Rudling
November 06, 2025
This volume charts the history of transnational and transatlantic fascism in East Central and Southeastern Europe, a lesser-known phenomenon that occurred throughout the twentieth century into the present. Organizations and individuals in this part of the continent, under the influences of Fascist ...
Foreign Fighters and the Extreme Right: Tracking Far-Right Volunteers Beyond the Ukraine War
1st Edition
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By Daniel Koehler, Miroslav Mareš
October 31, 2025
Foreign Fighters and the Extreme Right is the first comprehensive academic study taking an in-depth look at white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists leaving their home countries to join armed groups fighting in civil wars and other armed conflicts. The phenomenon that has ...
Showing Salazarism: A Cultural History of Early Estado Novo through Political Exhibitions
1st Edition
By Annarita Gori
October 27, 2025
Drawing on Jeffrey T. Schnapp’s conceptual framework, this book examines political exhibitions organized by the Portuguese Estado Novo between 1934 and 1940 as spaces where regimes manipulated national history to legitimize their authority, crafting myths of origin and narratives of national pride....
Alberto Beneduce, Mussolini’s Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Castellani
October 06, 2025
Alberto Beneduce, a prominent banker, policy-maker and technocratic institutions’ builder, held immense power as Fascist Italy's chief banker from 1925 to 1940. Most importantly, he was Mussolini's financial advisor and a key member of his inner circle of officers. Few historical eras have elicited...
Contemporary Far-Right Culture: The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism
1st Edition
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By Marc-André Argentino, Amarnath Amarasingam
September 30, 2025
Contemporary Far-Right Culture offers a comprehensive overview of the varied manifestations of today’s far-right culture. It examines how far-right extremists operate in the spaces they inhabit, exploring the key elements, characteristics, and historical background of far-right extremism. The ...
Transatlantic Practices of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from the Margins: The Cultural Politics of “Us” versus “Them”
1st Edition
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By Reindert Dhondt, Monica Jansen, Maria Bonaria Urban
August 29, 2025
This volume brings together leading international experts in politics, discourse, memory and culture to examine the complex entanglements of populism(s) and fascism(s) in political thought and cultural productions. The starting point is Argentine historian Federico Finchelstein’s assertion that the...
The Gehlen Organization and the Nazis
1st Edition
By Badis Ben Redjeb
August 14, 2025
This book uncovers the extent to which the Gehlen Organization, the intelligence organization created by the United States at the end of World War Two, recruited and used controversial individuals who had been heavily involved in the atrocities committed by the Nazis. Through an extensive study of ...
From Nationalism to Fascist Europeanism: Italy, the Francophone World, and the Empire Myth
1st Edition
By Emanuel Rota
August 08, 2025
This book traces the intellectual history of fascist Europeanism, examining how Italian and Francophone fascist thinkers envisioned European unity as a means of consolidating power, overcoming nationalist divisions, and resisting external threats rather than promoting peace or democracy.Readers ...