Emergenţa şi natura contagioasă a fascismului
Emergence and the Contagious Nature of Fascism

Summary/Abstract: Since 1945, scholars all over Europe and in the US never ceased to quest for a comprehensive definition of fascism. However, their efforts were directed mainly toward understanding the complex nature of the regimes in Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy. Less attention was paid to the bulk of small, “unsuccessful” fascist movements. Based mainly but not exclusively on the “retrodictive theory on fascism” proposed by Stanley Payne in 1996, the present article focuses on the early years of European fascism(s) in an attempt to identify the very roots and essence of this continent-wide, modern political phenomenon, nonetheless the factors that insured or on contrary limited its success in various countries.

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