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The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics
Length:
2,044 words

The term fascism was first used to identify the political system by which Italy was ruled from 1922 to 1945 ...

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Dictionary of the Social Sciences

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2002
Subject:
Social sciences
Length:
423 words

An extreme right-wing nationalist ideology, revolutionary political movement, and type of authoritarian regime that developed in Europe between the two ...

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Norman Davies

The Oxford Companion to World War II

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
973 words

is a generic name for a particular brand of totalitarian regime, several of which made their appearance in Europe between ...

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The Oxford Companion to Canadian History

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
390 words

Joining the chorus of protesters in Canada during the Great Depression were disparate groups of noisy fascists. Chief among them ...

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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
744 words

Political movement founded in Milan on 23 March 1919 as Fasci di combattimento, the term fascio (from the Latin ...

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The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
935 words

Analysis of fascism has produced an immense literature, for which the definition of the term is a major problem. This ...

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World Encyclopedia

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
Length:
163 words

Political movement founded in Italy by Benito Mussolini (1919), characterized by nationalism, totalitarianism and anti-communism. The term ...

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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Philosophy
Length:
148 words

Political doctrine combining ethnic nationalism with the totalitarian view that the state should control all aspects of social life. Fascism ...

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Jane Slaughter

The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
History
Length:
3,262 words
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The term “fascism” refers to a political ideology that assumed a variety of incarnations in the first half of the twentieth century. Between the two world wars, fascist political movements ... More
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The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Religion, Social sciences
Length:
3,872 words

Fascism is a political ideology driven by a vision of the nation's total rebirth from decadence (its “palingenesis”; see Griffin ...

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Claudio G. Segrè

The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics

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Current Version:
2012
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics
Length:
2,091 words

The term “fascism” was first used to identify the political system by which Italy was ruled from 1922 to 1945 ...

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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

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Current Version:
2002
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
105 words
1 an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. ... 2 (in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, ... More
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Language reference, History of English, Literature, Literary theory and cultural studies
Length:
93 words
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. ... The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime ... More

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