It is largely composed of writings by fascists (with some critics and observers) spanning the prewar, interwar and post-war periods, up to the present.
It was published by Oxford University Press in 1995 as a 410-page paperback (ISBN 0-19-289249-5).
| Part, Chapter, or Section | Title | Author |
| General Introduction | ||
| PART I | FASCISM IN ITALY | |
| A. | Fascism as an Opposition Movement | |
| i. | Pre-1918 Tributaries of Fascism | |
| 1. | The War as a Source of National Renewal | Giovanni Papini |
| 2. | The War as a Proletarian Cause | Revolutionary Syndicalism |
| 3. | The War as the Catharsis of Italian Society | Filippo T. Marinetti |
| 4. | The War as a Revolutionary Event | Benito Mussolini |
| 5. | 'Trenchocracy' | Benito Mussolini |
| 6. | The Futurist Vision of the New Italy | Political Futurism |
| 7. | From the Old Italy to the New | Alfredo Rocco |
| 8. | The War as the Midwife of a New Italian People | Roberto Farinacci |
| ii | Fascism in Opposition 23 March 1918 - 27 October 1922 | |
| 9. | San Sepulcro Fascism | Benito Mussolini |
| 10. | The Regency of Fiume as the Harbinger of the New Italy | Gabriele D'Annunzio and Alceste de Ambris |
| 11. | The Nationalist Blueprint for a New Italy | The Italian Nationalist Association |
| 12. | The Squadistri as the Revolutionaries of the New Italy | Mario Piazzesi |
| 13. | Fascism as the Victory of the New Italy | Luigi Federzoni |
| 14. | The Incorporation of the Peasantry into the Italian Nation | Benito Mussolini |
| 15. | Fascism's Myth: The Nation | Benito Mussolini |
| iii. | The Coalition Government 30 October 1922 - 3 January 1925 | |
| 16. | A Futurist Portrait of the New Prime Minister of Italy | Filippo T. Marinetti |
| 17. | The New State Born of Syndicalism and Statism | Sergio Panunzio |
| 18. | Fascism's European Mission | Curzio Malaparte |
| 19. | The End of the Liberal Regime | Benito Mussolini |
| B. | Fascism in Power January 1925-April 1945 | |
| i. | The Formative Years of the 'Totalitarian' Regime January 1925-February 1929 | |
| 20. | Fascism as a Total Conception of Life | Giovanni Gentile |
| 21. | Fascist Mysticism | Italian Fasci Abroad |
| 22. | Fascism as the Creator of the Third Italian Civilization | Benito Mussolini |
| 23. | The Leader as the Voice of the Reborn Race | Augusto Turati |
| 24. | The Strength in Numbers | Benito Mussolini |
| 25. | The Strength in Numbers | Benito Mussolini |
| 26. | The Anti-Modernist Aesthetic of Strapaese | Mino Maccari |
| 27. | The University as the Incubator of a Fascist Elite | Giuseppe Bottai |
| 28. | The Achievements of the Fascist Revolution | Benito Mussolini |
| ii | The Period of Consolidation 1930-1934 | |
| 29. | Towards a Fascist Europe | Asvero Gravelli |
| 30. | The Role of Youth under Fascism | Giovanni Giurati |
| 31. | Fascist Corporativism as the Key to a New International Order | Ugo Spirito |
| 32. | Mussolini's Century | Giuseppe Bottai |
| 33. | Going to the People | Achille Starace |
| 34. | The Birth of a New Civilization | Benito Mussolini |
| iii | Imperialist Expansion and Alignment with Nazism 1935-1939 | |
| 35. | The Vital Need for Empire | Benito Mussolini |
| 36. (a) | From the Abyssinian Campaign | Marching songs of Fascist Soldiers Abroad |
| 36. (b) | From the Spanish Campaign | Marching songs of Fascist Soldiers Abroad |
| 37. | The Autarkic Mentality and the New Fascist Order | Edmondo Rossoni |
| 38. | Blood Brothers: Fascism and Nazism | Benito Mussolini |
| 39. | The Introduction of Fascist Racial Policy | Gioacchino Volpe |
| iv | Fascism at War 1940-1943 | |
| 40. | People of Italy! Run to your Arms! | Benito Mussolini |
| 41. | Safeguarding Europe's Birthright against the Jewish Conspiracy | Alfredo Cioffi |
| 42. | The New Europe which will Arise from the Axis Victory | Carlo Costamagna |
| v | The Italian Socialist Republic 1943-1945 | |
| 43. | Fascism Reborn | The Fascist Republican Party |
| 44. | The Greatest Massacre of All Time: Democracy | Benito Mussolini |
| 45. | What Might Have Been: Axis Europe | Benito Mussolini |
| PART II | FASCISM IN GERMANY | |
| A. | German Fascism before the Nazi Seizure of Power | |
| i | Pre-1914 Precursors of German Fascism | |
| 46. | The Redemptive Mission of German Culture | Richard Wagner |
| 47. | The Need to Transcend Liberalism | Paul De LaGarde |
| 48. | The Rebirth of German Genius | Julius Langbehn |
| 49. | Planting the New Reich | Stefan George |
| 50. | The Need for the Nation to be Healed | Theodor Fritsch |
| ii | Non-Nazi German Fascisms | |
| 51. | The Resurgence of the West | Otto Dickel |
| 52. | The Eternal German Reich | Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck |
| 53. | The Organic German Nation | Edgar Jung |
| 54. | The Great War: Father of a New Age | Ernst Junger |
| 55. | The Germany of the Freikorps | Ernst von Salomon |
| 56. | The Emergence of a New Type of Human Being | Ernst Junger |
| 57. | The Prussian Spirit: Salvation of the White Race | Oswald Spengler |
| 58. | The German Knight as the Key to Europe's Recovery | Otto Strasser |
| iii | Nazism before 1933 | |
| 59. | The Mission of the Nazi Movement | Adolf Hitler |
| 60. | Barren Trees | Franz Pfeffer Von Salomon |
| 61. | 'Christ-Socialism' | Joseph Goebbels |
| 62. | Let there be Light | Gottfried Feder |
| 63. | Motherhood and Warriorhood as the Key to a National Socialism | Gregor Strasser |
| 64. | Nordic Thinking and the German Rebirth | Hans F. K. Günther |
| 65. | Breeding a New Nobility | Richard Walther Darré |
| 66. | The New Human Synthesis | E. Gunther Grundel |
| B. | German Fascism in Power 1933-1945 | |
| i | The Establishment of the Third Reich 1933-1935 | |
| 67. | German Rebirth | Alfred Rosenberg |
| 68. | The Third Reich as Savior of the West | Hermann Göring |
| 69. | The Total Revolution of National Socialism | Joseph Goebbels |
| 70. | The New Breed of German | Gottfried Benn |
| 71. | The New German Woman | Paula Siber |
| 72. | The Legal Basis of the Total State | Carl Schmitt |
| 73. | The Place of Art in Germany's Political Reawakening | Adolf Hitler |
| ii | The Period of Consultation 1936-1939 | |
| 74. | Soldierly Economics | Werner Daitz |
| 75. | The Joy of the National Socialist Economy | Robert Ley |
| 76. | The Expansionary Spirit of a Rejuvenated People | Paul Ritter |
| 77. | Nazism's World Crusade against the Jews | Hammer Press |
| 78. | The Divine Mission of the SS | Heinrich Himmler |
| 79. | The Role of Youth in Perpetuating the Third Reich | Willi F. Konitzer |
| 80. | The Successful Cleansing of German Culture | Helmuth Langenbucher |
| 81. | National Socialism as the Custodian of European Being | Martin Heidegger |
| 82. | The Third Reich as the Cure for the European Sickness | Christoph Steding |
| iii | The Third Reich at War 1939-1945 | |
| 83. | The New European Order | Paul Herre |
| 84. | A National Socialist Common Market | Hans S. V. Heister |
| 85. | Improving the Stock | Walter Gross |
| 86. | The True Meaning of the War | Joseph Goebbels |
| 87. | The Ultimate Turning-Point: Total War | Robert Ley |
| 88. | Moral Dilemmas | Heinrich Himmler |
| 89. | Heimat | Schwarzes Korps |
| 90. | The Rebirth of National Socialism | Adolf Hitler |
| PART III | ABORTIVE FASCISMS 1922-1945 | |
| A. | European Fascisms | |
| i. | Britain | |
| 91. | Christ, Nietzsche, and Caesar | Oswald Mosley |
| 92. | Towards a Fascist Europe | Oswald Mosley |
| 93. | A Corporate Britain | Alexander Raven Thomson |
| 94. | Britain Awake! | E.D. Randell |
| 95. | A Spiritual Typhus | Arthur Kenneth Chesterton |
| 96. | Hitler Shows the Way | William Joyce |
| ii | Ireland | |
| 97. | The New Corporate Ireland | Eoin O'Duffy |
| iii | Spain | |
| 98. | The Voice of Spain | Ramiro Ledesma Ramos |
| 99. | Total Feeling | Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera |
| 100. | Bread and Justice | Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera |
| 101. | A New Breed of Spaniards | Antonio Vallejo-Nagera |
| iv | Portugal | |
| 102. | The Wind of Change | Rolão Preto |
| 103. | Ersatz Fascism | Rolão Preto |
| v | France | |
| 104. | Empty Portfolios | George Valois |
| 105. | Saving France | Jacques Doriot |
| 106. | The European Revolution and the New State | Marcel Déat |
| 107. | The Rebirth of European Man | Pierre Drieu La Rochelle |
| vi | Belgium | |
| 108. | The Revolution of Souls | Leon Degrelle |
| 109. | Fascism's Century | Jose Streel |
| vii | Norway | |
| 110. | The Nordic Revival | Vidkun Quisling |
| 111. | A Greater Norway | Vidkun Quisling |
| viii | Finland | |
| 112. | The Battle for the New Finland | Lapua |
| 113. | The Revolution of the Finnish Heart | Elias Simojoki |
| ix | Estonia | |
| 114. | A New Estonia | Evl |
| x | Latvia | |
| 115. | A Latvian Latvia | Gustavs Celmiņš |
| xi | Romania | |
| 116. | The Romanian Legionary's Mission in Spain | Ion Moţa |
| 117. | The Resurrection of the Race | Corneliu Codreanu |
| xii | Hungary | |
| 118. | Hungarism | Ferenc Szálasi |
| B. | Non-European Fascisms | |
| i. | South Africa | |
| 119. | The Reawakening of the Boerevolk | Ossewabrandwag |
| ii | Chile | |
| 120. | Chilean Action and National Regeneration | Carlos Keller |
| 121. | The Soul of the Race | Jorge González von Mareés |
| iii | Brazil | |
| 122. | A Fourth Era of Humanity Dawns | Plinio Salgado |
| 123. | The Soul of the Nation Awakens | Plinio Salgado |
| iv | Japan | |
| 124. | The Need for a Totalitarian Japan | Nakano Seigō |
| 125. | Write Your Own Mein Kampf | Nakano Seigō |
| PART IV | THEORIES OF FASCISM | |
| A. | Reactions to Fascism 1920-1945 | |
| i | Ambivalent or Positive Reactions to the Spread of Fascism | |
| 126. | Black Sheep | Vilfredo Pareto |
| 127. | A Plague of Amateur Mussolinis | Kenneth Roberts |
| 128. | A Sunny Disposition | Robert Michels |
| 129. | The Italian Volksstaat | Johann W. Mannhardt |
| 130. | The Italian Experiment | Erwin von Beckerath |
| 131. | To Each Country its Own Fascism | James Strachey Barnes |
| 132. | The Makers of Europe | Giuseppe Borgese |
| 133. | A Sense of Humor | Sir Charles Petrie |
| 134. | A Bad Good Thing | H.G. Wells |
| ii | Interpretations of Fascism by Marxists | |
| 135. | Three Comintern Responses to Fascism | Comintern |
| (a) | Opening the Door to Fascism | Comintern |
| (b) | White Terror | Comintern |
| (c) | Fruit of the Womb | Comintern |
| 136. | Erroneous Definitions | Palmiro Togliatti |
| 137. | The Purging Fires of Fascism | R. Palme Dutt |
| 138. | The Return of the Dark Ages | E. J. Strachey |
| iii | Democratic Critiques of Fascism | |
| 139. | Tribal Loyalties | G.D.H. and M.I. Cole |
| 140. | Dragon's Teeth | R.A. Brady |
| 141. | The Hopeless Task | Karl Polanyi |
| 142. | Rabbits Ruled by Stoats | George Orwell |
| 143. | Black Magic | Peter Drucker |
| 144. | The Iron Heel | Max Horkheimer |
| iv | Four Wartime Analyses of Fascism | |
| 145. | Forcing Elephants into Foxholes | Wilhelm Reich |
| 146. | The Fear of Freedom | Erich Fromm |
| 147. | Market Forces | Harold Laski |
| 148. | Rationalism Debunked | Talcott Parsons |
| B. | Post-War Judgements on Fascism | |
| i | Some Approaches to Fascism | |
| 149. | Paradigms of Fascism | Bernt Hagtvet and Stein Larsen |
| a. | Marxist Approaches | |
| 150. | The View From Moscow | A Soviet Political Dictionary |
| 151. | The View from East Germany | Joachim Petzold |
| 152. | The View of a Western Marxist | Martin Kitchen |
| b. | Fascism as the Product of Structural Forces | |
| 153. | Extremism of the Centre | Seymour M. Lipset |
| 154. | Defective Nation-Building | Bernt Hagtvet and Stein Rokkan |
| 155. | Redemptive Potential | Geoffrey Eley |
| c. | Psycho-Historical Approaches | |
| 156. | Fear and Destructiveness | The Frankfurt School |
| 157. | Making Sense | Gerald M. Platt |
| 158. | Raising the Dead | Klaus Theweleit |
| d. | Modernization Theories | |
| 159. | Blood and Death | Barrington Moore |
| 160. | Utopian Anti-Modernism | Henry A. Turner Jun |
| 161. | Fascist Modernity | Emilio Gentile |
| ii | Some Individual Theories of the Fascist Minimum | |
| 162. | Resisting Transcendence | Ernst Nolte |
| 163. | The Total Charismatic Community | A. James Gregor |
| 164. | The Latecomer | Juan B. Linz |
| 165. | Verbal Revolutionarism | Renzo de Felice |
| 166. | A Mulish Concept | Gilbert Allardyce |
| 167. | A Third Way | George L. Mosse |
| 168. | A New Nationalist Authoritarian State | Stanley Payne |
| 160. | A New Civilization | Zeev Sternhell |
| 170. | The New Synthesis | Roger Eatwell |
| PART V | POST-WAR FASCISMS | |
| i | Verdicts on the 'Fascist Era' from Veteran Fascists | |
| 171. | Fascism: Myth and Reality | Julius Evola |
| 172. | The Third Reich: The Triumph of the Demagogues | Ernst Niekisch |
| 173. | Lenin was Right | Maurice Bardeche |
| 174. | The Ideals of the Fascist Era | Leon Degrelle |
| 175. | The Lunacy of Fascism and Nazism | Arthur Kenneth Chesterton |
| 176. | Hubris and Miscalculation | Oswald Mosley |
| ii | Discourses of Post-War Fascism | |
| (a) | Universal Nazism | |
| 177. | The Revival of National Socialism | Colin Jordan |
| 178. | A Racist Catechism | The West European Foundation |
| 179. | How to Save Europe | Guy Amaudruz |
| (b) | Holocaust Denial | |
| 180. | The Miracle of the Telephone Box | Leon Degrelle |
| 181. | A Monumental Lie | Thies Christophersen |
| 182. | An Ever-Flowing River | John Day |
| (c) | Historical Revisionism | |
| 183. | The Bicycle Thief | David Irving |
| 184. | Laying it on the Line | David Irving |
| 185. | From Class War to Race War | Ernst Nolte |
| 186. | Truth and Fiction | Gerhard Frey |
| (d) | Eurofascism | |
| 187. | The European Revolution | The Malmo Manifesto |
| 188. | The True Europe's Revolt against the Modern World | Julius Evola |
| 189. | Europe a Nation | Oswald Mosley |
| (e) | The New Right | |
| 190. | Regenerating History | Alain de Benoist |
| 191. | The Metapolitical Rebirth of Europe | Pierre Krebbs |
| 192. | A Breath of Fresh Air | Michael Walker |
| (f) | The Conservative Revolution | |
| 193. | German Nihilism | Armin Mohler |
| 194. | The Will to Modernity of the Conservative Revolution | Louis Dupeux |
| 195. | Heroic Realism | Robert Steukers |
| (g) | Third Position | |
| 196. | The European Genius and the Rediscovery of the Sacred | Adolfo Morganti |
| 197. | The Political Soldier and the National Revolution | Derek Holland |
| 198. | A Community of Destiny | Groupe Union Defense |
| iii | Contemporary Expressions of Fascism | |
| (a) | Ideological Fascism | |
| 199. | Songs for Europe | Skrewdriver |
| 200. | The Immortal Principle | Hartwig Huber |
| 201. | The Greening of Nazism | Padraig Cullen |
| 202. | Spiritual AIDS | John Tyndall |
| (b) | Militant Fascism | |
| 203. | Blood, Soil, and Faith | L'Oeuvre Francaise |
| 204. | The Cleansing Hurricane | William Pierce |
| 205. | Patriots of the World Unite! | Paymat |
| 206. | God's Own | Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging |
| 207. | The Romanian Ethnocratic State | 973-35-1068-8 |
| (c) | Electoral Fascism | |
| 208. | Living Stones of the New Spain | Frente Nacional |
| 209. | The European Home | Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands |
| 210. | Saving the Nation | British National Party |
| 211. | For a New Italy | Movimento Sociale Italiano |
| 212. | King Kong Meets his Match | Russia's Liberal Democratic Party |
| EPILOGUE | ||
| 213. | The Deadly Trunk of Fascism | Primo Levi |
| Select Bibliography | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Index |