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Fascist and Nazi economic systems, their similarities and differences, and how they were used to achieve political goals
Experts and commentators use overlapping but distinct definitions of “dictator”: classical definitions emphasize a single ruler exercising unchecked, centralized power often through force or legal sus...
Historians of 1930s Europe treat comparisons between Mussolini/Hitler and contemporary right‑wing movements such as Trumpism as analytically useful but contested: many identify thematic echoes—demagog...
Several interwar fascist movements—notably early French fascist parties, the British Union of Fascists in its early years, and Mussolini’s Italy before 1938—either rejected or downplayed racial antise...
Police under historical fascist regimes were both instruments and architects of repression: existing forces were often co‑opted, reshaped, and supplemented by secret police to surveil, exile, and elim...