Varieties of Fascism - Chapter 8 (Hungary)

This is the eight chapter of Varieties of Fascism as written by Professor Eugen Weber. Chapter 8 tackles the rise of a uniquely "Magyar (Hungarian)" national socialist ideology and regime in Hungary following the first world war and ending with the second world war. Eugen Weber deals with the animosity found in Hungary after the defeat of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire in the First World War, the desires of revanchism and irredentism over the loss of eastern lands to Romania. From these tatters comes the unique national socialism of Ferenc Szalasi. Continuing with the thesis (and conclusion) that national socialism and fascism are distinguishable, Eugen Weber focuses on the ideological heart of "magyarism" found in the national socialist regime of the Arrow Cross party, as well as its anti-semitism and final collapse at the hands of the Soviet Union.

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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 does not suffer the estrangement and misdefinition of the terms it seeks to educate on.

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