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.
Transnational and Transatlantic Fascism, 1918–2018: The Far Right in East Central and Southeastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
By Daniel Koehler, Miroslav Mareš
October 29, 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 known as ...
Alberto Beneduce, Mussolini’s Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Castellani
October 07, 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
Edited
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
September 11, 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 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 ...
Christian Nationalism and Anticommunism in Twentieth-Century South Africa
1st Edition
By Ruhan Fourie
July 31, 2025
This book investigates Afrikaner anticommunism in South Africa in the twentieth century, focusing on the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC). Following contemporary understandings of anticommunism as a fluid ideological stance, it demonstrates that the deeply held anticommunist convictions of ordinary ...
Alt-Education: Gender, Knowledge and Far-right Metapolitics
1st Edition
By Catherine Tebaldi
July 25, 2025
Alt-Education looks at the stories the right tells about schools: a fight between an evil, indoctrinating government and a far-right freethinking truth warrior, between a frigid cultural Marxist teacher and a loving Christian mother. This book explores the link between education, gender, and ...
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
1st Edition
By Marc-André Argentino
July 18, 2025
This book explores the QAnon movement by examining its history, fluctuations, and evolution, stemming from the likelihood of multiple users behind the “Q” account, as well as from the changes in the sociopolitical landscape since the creation of the movement. It frames QAnon as a lived religion and...
National Socialist Cultural Diplomacy: Culture, Politics, and Comradeship at the German-Nordic Writers’ House, 1934–1939
1st Edition
By Frederik Forrai Ørskov
June 30, 2025
National Socialist Cultural Diplomacy provides the first comprehensive account of the German-Nordic Writers’ House. From 1934 to 1939, young Scandinavian and Finnish writers spent summers at a seaside villa in Travemünde, mingling with representatives of the “new German literature,” to enjoy beach ...
Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists on Emigration: Its Formation and Transnational Connections in 1929–1934
1st Edition
By Magdalena Gibiec
June 27, 2025
This book describes the formation, transnational activities and inner workings of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in exile. Made possible thanks to an in-depth examination of previously unutilised correspondence relating to the OUN, this title examines the organisation during the ...