Varieties of Fascism - Chapter 9 (Romania)

This is the ninth chapter of Varieties of Fascism as written by Professor Eugen Weber. Chapter 9 focuses on Romania. The end of the First World War found Romania exhausted in a state of pyrrhic victory. Isolated from the Triple Entente, Romania lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers and nearly collapsed under years of Austro-Hungarian, Bulgarian, and German offensives. Now, however, Eugen Weber speaks of an exhausted Romania who, only a few years after their victory, had already lost their gains from the war to their Bulgarian and Hungarian neighbors. Injected into this domestic frustration the ever frightening spectre of Russian Soviet Imperialism sets the stage for a uniquely disciplined and religiously and morally inspired national socialist party. The Iron Guard (Or Legion of the Arch Angel Micheal) headed by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu would see the emphasis on morality, piety, and constitutionality. But, as Eugen Weber adroitly points out, such a movement was doomed to violence. Following the extra-judicial murder of the founder, so too was the orders morals also extinguished and only violence was to fill the void.

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In 1964, the world approached the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Eugen Weber, a Romanian born, French-educated, British Veteran, and now American professor, sat down to take in the impact of socialism, fascism, and national socialism on the 20th-century world. Having served with the British during the Second World War, Eugen Weber was no stranger to the violent upheaval these ideologies had, and indeed are having.

In the Narrator's opinion, the compilation of this work is invaluable in a current atmosphere of domestic ideological cleavings. Writing nineteen years after the Second World War, a war which Professor Weber fought in, this work has topical adjacency to the real physical manifestations of such phenomena. Additionally, written in the early sixties, the work doe..