Fašismus - Historické kořeny hnutí a jeho projevy v současnosti (2026)

In March 1919, several dozen people led by the passionate nationalist Benito Mussolini gathered in Milan's Piazza San Sepolcro. Their meeting resulted in the creation of the Italian Fasces of Combat, bringing a new phenomenon onto the political scene: fascism. Initially small and insignificant, the movement seized power in Italy within three years, and a decade later Mussolini confidently proclaimed that the twentieth century would be un secolo fascista, the century of fascism. In the 1930s, it could seem that he was right. National forms of fascism appeared in every European country, and millions of people voted for fascists in free and democratic elections. In this Czech-language book, Slovak historian Jakub Drábik explains what fascism really is, how it can be defined, whom we can call a fascist, and how fascism manifests itself. He explores its ideology and appeal, as well as the reasons millions of people succumbed to it. Using Italy, Germany, Great Britain and Czechoslovakia as examples, he examines interwar fascist movements, fascism as a global phenomenon, its development after 1945, and its manifestations in the twenty-first century.