The five ages of antifascism / Joseph Fronczak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fronczak, Joseph, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements.

Cambridge elements. Elements in the history and politics of fascism. 2977-0416

Cambridge elements. Elements in the history and politics of fascism, 2977-0416

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-fascist movements--History.

Anti-fascist movements.

Fascism--History.

Fascism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

A global history of antifascism from its inception to our own times. Its inspiration, and subject of critique, though, is a work of fascist history, Robert O. Paxton's classic essay 'The Five Stages of Fascism'. Paxton influentially studied fascism by comparing national case studies and proposing a cycle of five developmental stages through which each national fascism might progress. Here, historian Joseph Fronczak counters Paxton's method of stages with one of ages: instead of organizing antifascism into national case studies going through stages, he organizes antifascism's global history into five ages, stressing the transnational causes and solidarities that pushed global antifascism to take form and shift shape over time. A further aim of this element is to pose this history of antifascism as a counterhistory of fascism, a sort of epistemological experiment for rethinking fascism's history through a formulation of antifascism's history.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2026).

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 12, 2026).

ISBN:

1-009-61961-6

1-009-61963-2

1-009-61964-0