From Hitler to Codreanu
The Ideology of Fascist Leaders
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought Series

This book examines fascist ideology in seven leaders of parties and movements in the interwar period.

It makes use of the conceptual morphological approach, focused on core and adjacent concepts, as well as on the interlinkages between them. With such an approach, the book seeks to offer an innovative perspective on fascism and arrive at a conceptual configuration of fascist ideology, capable of highlighting its main concepts and combinations. Furthermore, it examines the major texts of seven leaders from Germany, Italy, the UK, Portugal, Spain, France and Romania ? Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Oswald Mosley, Rolão Preto, Primo de Rivera, Marcel Déat, and Corneliu Codreanu. With the conceptual approach, the book reasserts the possibility of finding a definition of generic fascism at the same time as depicting the ideological varieties espoused by each leader.

This title will be of interest to students and scholars of fascism, extremism and the far right.

Introduction: Fascist Leaders, Generic Fascism and the Conceptual Approach 1. The Conceptual Structure of ‘Generic Fascism’: Seven Core Concepts 2. Adolf Hitler and German National Socialism: Racial Struggle as the Basis of a Worldview 3. Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists: The Ideological Synthesis of "Greater Britain" 4. Francisco Rolão Preto and Portuguese National Syndicalism: Corporatism and the Construction of an Alternative Modernity 5. José António Primo de Rivera and the Spanish Falange: The Historical Mission of the Spanish Nation 6. Corneliu Codreanu and the Iron Guard- The Manichean Battle Between Good and Evil 7. Marcel Déat and the French RNP: The European Revolution and the New Party 8. Benito Mussolini and Italian Fascism: The Creation of a New Conceptual Configuration 9. Final Considerations about the Conceptual Configuration of Generic Fascism Conclusion

Carlos Manuel Martins holds a PhD from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. His doctorate research revolved around the ideology of historical fascism and fascist leaders. He is now preparing postdoctoral research on the Contemporary Radical Right.