Český fašismus
Czech Fascism, 1938-45: Taking Stock

Summary/Abstract: In this essay the author presents an outline of Czech Fascism not as an anomaly but as a phenomenon with an international context, as one of the key ideologies and co-determinants in the dynamic of modern history. He argues that the prerequisites for the formation of Fascist attitudes and mentalities first emerged in the closing years of the eighteenth century. This eventually led to the attempt to achieve a Fascist solution to the crisis of Modernism, which was traumatically revealed by the First World War and its attendant shock to civilization. The instability of the traditional power structures when faced with the acute threat of the radical left-wing alternative enabled Fascism to grow into a mass movement seeking to establish a totalitarian state.

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