Discussion 1: Definitions of Fascism

University:
University of Wyoming
Course:
HIST 2060 | Comparative Fascism
Academic year:

2023
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281

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2
Author:

Allison B.

Discussion 1: Definitions of Fascism ● World War I and the Birth of Fascism ● Europe (1871) - at the end of the Franco-Prussian War ● Imagined Communities - Benedict Anderson ● Industrialization as a means for brining together communities ○ Growing challenges to patriarchal societies ○ Women in Wilehlmine Germany ● Colonialism ○ Colonialism in the 19th century was centered around ideas of civilized populations, in theory not just colonizing for economic gains but demonstrating the success and cultural superiority of Europeans (whites) over others ● Perceptions of Colonial Violence ○ Adventurous, opportunities for young men to grow ○ A justifiable, necessary undertaking of barbarism vs. civilization ● “Hottentot Bloc” → What is a nation? ● Wilhelm Marr (1879), antijudaism is not antiseminitism ● Karl Leuger -- Austrian politician, mayor of Vienna, and leader and founder of the Austrian Christian Social Party. 1897-1910 ● Dreyfus Affair ● Franz Joseph -- Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the other states of the AustroHungarian Empire from 2 December 1848 until his death. From 1 May 1850 to 24 August 1866 he was also President of the German Confederation. ● Kaiser Wilhelm II (1889-end of WWI) ● WWI in the Armenian Genocide Fascist Aesthetics and Language ● Spain and Political Instability ○ Latifundias and the land-based oligarchy ○ Abdication of Queen Isabella II ■ Fall of the House of Bourbon (1873) ○ First Spanish Republic (1873) ■ Monarchy restored one year later (1874) ○ Anarchists, Socialists, and Republicans ■ Catalonia ○ Military Dictatorship (1923) ○ Second Spanish Republic (1931) ○ Falange Española ■ Spanish Military ● José Sanjurjo ● Fancisco Franco ● Potentials in Hungary ○ End of WWI, newly independent from Austro-Hungarian Empire ○ Regency - Admiral Miklós Horthy The man in the high castle - Creation of the East German security state post WWII and how violations of privacy permeated society etc.?? Creating the Volkenshcraft ● Leni Riefenstahl ●