Fascism : a conceptual characterization

Since the interwar period, thousands of books, articles and pamphlets have been written about different fascist movements. However, it is still difficult to find a comprehensive definition that embraces all fascist variants, including those different from Italian Fascism and German National Socialism, such as the Central and Eastern European samples. In 1984, professor Enric Ucelay Da Cal (currently at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra –UPF-, Barcelona) proposed a description, which can work as a theoretical and methodological skeleton for a research agenda centred on new and historical Fascism.Since the interwar period, thousands of books, articles and pamphlets have been written about different fascist movements. However, it is still difficult to find a comprehensive definition that embraces all fascist variants, including those different from Italian Fascism and German National Socialism, such as the Central and Eastern European samples. In 1984, professor Enric Ucelay Da Cal (currently at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra –UPF-, Barcelona) proposed a description, which can work as a theoretical and methodological skeleton for a research agenda centred on new and historical FascismSince the interwar period, thousands of books, articles and pamphlets have been written about different fascist movements. However, it is still difficult to find a comprehensive definition that embraces all fascist variants, including those different from Italian Fascism and German National Socialism, such as the Central and Eastern European samples. In 1984, professor Enric Ucelay Da Cal (currently at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra –UPF-, Barcelona) proposed a description, which can work as a theoretical and methodological skeleton for a research agenda centred on new and historical Fascism