Fascism History

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    • By: Robert O. Paxton
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,205 ratings
    • What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question....

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    • By: Stanley G. Payne
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • Focusing mostly on Italy and Germany but also considering Spain, Romania, Japan, and movements in other countries, Payne describes fascism as revolutionary ultranationalism based on national rebirth....

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    • By: Jason Stanley
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.

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    • A Warning
    • By: Madeleine Albright
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Albright
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,522 ratings
    • From one of the most admired international leaders comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses....

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    • The Secret History of the American Left
    • By: Jonah Goldberg
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,183 ratings
    • "Fascists", "Brownshirts", "jackbooted stormtroopers" - such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents....

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    • The Germans, 1933-45
    • By: Milton Mayer
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 444 ratings
    • First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany....

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    • By: Paul Gottfried
    • Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • What does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual historian Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the term's meaning has evolved over the years....

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    • The Politics of Us and Them
    • By: Jason Stanley
    • Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,517 ratings
    • As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding of how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism: Nations don’t have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics....

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    • A World History
    • By: Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 420 ratings
    • In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Kevin Passmore
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Fascism is notoriously hard to define. Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore brilliantly unravels the paradoxes of one of the most important phenomena in the modern world....

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    • Mussolini to the Present
    • By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 923 ratings
    • Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. Here, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule....

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    • History, Ideology, Resistance
    • By: Paul Mason
    • Narrated by: Paul Mason
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The far right is on the rise across the world. In How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right....

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    • Why the First World War Failed to End
    • By: Robert Gerwarth
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
    • As absorbing in its drama as it is unsettling in its analysis, The Vanquished is destined to transform our understanding of not just the First World War but the 20th century as a whole....

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    • By: Leon Trotsky
    • Narrated by: Darnel Stone
    • Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Writing in the heat of struggle against the rise of fascism in Germany, France, and Spain in the 1930s, communist leader Leon Trotsky examines the class origins and character of fascist movements....

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    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • By: Christian Goeschel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that affected both countries. While Germany is regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally....

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    • The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945
    • By: Julia Boyd
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices - even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett - into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon....

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    • Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,375 ratings
    • Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power....

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    • The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
    • By: Sarah Kendzior
    • Narrated by: Sarah Kendzior
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,141 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American dema­gogue possible....

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    • The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death
    • By: Roger Moorhouse
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Disraeli once declared that "assassination never changed anything", and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have been averted with a single bullet or bomb has remained a tantalizing one for half a century....

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    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 929 ratings
    • This classic, definitive account of totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an "ideological weapon for imperialism"....

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