Fascism Past and Present, West and East: An International Debate on Concepts and Cases in the Comparative Study of the Extreme Right Roger Griffin, Werner Loh and Andreas Ulmand, Eds. In the opinion of some historians the era of fascism ended with the deaths of Mussolini and Hitler in 1945; yet, the academic debate about its nature is as far from resolution as ever. Besides, a number of developments since 1945 make it ever more desirable that politicians, journalists, lawyers, and the general public can turn to 'experts' for a heuristically useful and broadly consensual definition of the term. The novel post-war phenomena include: the emergence of a highly prolific European New Right, the rise of radical right populist parties, the flourishing of ultra-nationalist movements in the former Soviet empire, the radicalization of some currents of Islam and Hinduism into potent political forces, and the upsurge of religious terrorism. This book brings alive the intense controversy the topic has generated, while suggesting valuable heuristic strategies for resolving it. Twenty-nine academics, including several prominent experts working in English, were invited by the journal Erwagen Wissen Ethik to engage with an article by Roger Griffin, one of the most influential theorists in the study of generic fascism in the Anglophone world. The result is essential reading for all those who realize the need to provide the term 'fascism' with theoretical rigour, analytical precision, and empirical content. The book will change the way in which historians and political scientists think about fascism, and make the discussion on the threat it poses to infant democracies like Russia more incisive not just for academics, but for politicians, journalists, and the wider public. The Editors: Roger D. Griffin is the author of numerous influential papers on generic fascism and of The Nature of Fascism (Pinter 1991; Routledge 1993), as well as editor of a number of important collected volumes on the extreme right. Werner Loh is a specialist on the philosophy of science, the author of, among others, Kombinatorische Systemtheorie (Campus 1980), and editor of the journal Erwagen Wissen Ethik Andreas Ulmand is the author of several papers on the Russian extreme right, and editor of three collected volumes on post-Soviet affairs.