Robert Soucy
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Professor Emeritus of History, Oberlin College. American historian specializing in French fascist movements (1924-39), European fascism, and 20th-century European intellectual history; French fascist intellectuals Maurice Barrès and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, and Marcel Proust's aesthetics of reading. He is the author of French Fascism: The First Wave, 1924-1933 (1986); French Fascism: The Second Wave, 1933-1939 (1995).
Primary Contributions (1)
Fascism, political ideology and mass movement that dominated many parts of central, southern, and eastern Europe between 1919 and 1945 and that also had adherents in western Europe, the United States, South Africa, Japan, Latin America, and the Middle East. Europe’s first fascist leader, Benito…
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Publications (2)
French Fascism: The First Wave, 1924-1933 (1986)
Robert Soucy. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 263-270.
French Fascism: The Second Wave, 1933-1939
This provocative book demolishes the notion that fascism never took hold in France. Robert Soucy, author of the acclaimed French Fascism: The First Wave, continues his argument that France has had a long-standing fascist tradition, and he investigates the social and economic conservatism of French fascist movements of the 1930s.