KSCB092 Fascism and its specifics in Europe and Asia

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2019
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jakub Drábik, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Lucie Olivová, MA, Ph.D., DSc.
Department of Chinese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. et Mgr. Dušan Vávra, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Chinese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Tuesday 14:00–17:50 B2.13
Prerequisites
The necessity for the successful completion of the course is at least passive knowledge of English.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 180 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/180, only registered: 0/180, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/180
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of this course is to explain what fascism is, how and why historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other scholars used different definitions, and to show, how these definitions can be used on specific historic cases. The course will concentrate on the character of fascism, expressed in both its Italian and German forms, but also in a number of other movements in Europe, with special focus on the specific manifestations of fascism in Asia: in China and Japan.
Learning outcomes
- after completing the course, student will be able to identify fascism and fascist movements and recognize which of them can be considered fascist and which not

- student will understand the philosophical and ideological roots of fascist ideology and the way in which they formed specific national permutations of fascism

- student will understand the historical and political evolution of fascist regimes in Germany and Italy and selected fascist movements in Europe and Asia

- student will be able to analyze the current (neo)fascist movements put this into the comparative perspective with movements in the inter-war period

- Understand and describe the factors that influence the growth of fascism and identify the dangers resulting from this growth
Syllabus
  • 1. What is fascism?
  • 1.1. Chaos in definitions of fascism, development in fascist studies, new consensus, definition of fascism
  • 1.2. Roots of fascism
  • 2. Italian fascism
  • 2.1. The rise of Italian fascism, 1918-1929
  • 2.2. Fascist empire building, war and collapse, 1929-1945
  • 2.3. Mussolini
  • 3. German fascism
  • 3.1. National-socialist "Kampfzeit," 1918 - 1933
  • 3.2. From grasping the power to racial war and destruction
  • 3.3. Movie: Leni Riefenstahl – Triumph des Willens
  • 3.4. Movie: Marcel Schwierin – Eternal Beauty
  • 4. Fascism in Asia: China
  • 4.1. Fascism and its specifics in China
  • 4.2. Blue shirts movement
  • 4.3. The influence of fascism on Kuomintang
  • 5. Fascism in Asia: Japan
  • 5.1. Fascism and its specifics in Japan
  • 5.2. Japan racism and "Asia for Asians"
  • 5.3. Japan empire 1918 - 1945
  • 6. Other manifestations of fascism
  • 6.1. Fascism in the United Kingdom
  • 6.2. Fascism in Czechoslovakia
  • 6.3. Neofascism, populism, radical-right - definitions
  • 6.4. Post-1945 Fascism
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Griffin, Roger. The Nature of Fascism. New York: Routledge, 1993.
  • Hsia Chang, Maria. The Chinese Blue Shirt Society. Fascism and Developmental Nationalism. Berkeley: University of California, 1985.
  • Payne, Stanley G. A History of Fascism: 1914-1945. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
  • Griffin, Roger. Modernismus a fašismus. Praha: Karolinum, 2015.
  • DRÁBIK, Jakub. Mýtus o znovuzrození : Britská unie fašistů a její propaganda. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filozofická fakulta University Karlovy, 2014, 331 s. ISBN 9788073085209. info
  • GENTILE, Emilio. Politická náboženství : mezi demokracií a totalitarismem. Translated by Hana Mondelli-Lhotáková. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2008, 223 s. ISBN 9788073251536. info
  • PAXTON, Robert O. Anatomie fašismu. Translated by Martin Machovec - Vanda Pokorná. Vyd. 1. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2007, 382 s. ISBN 9788071068112. info
  • NOLTE, Ernst. Fašismus ve své epoše. Translated by Jan Dobeš - Blanka Pscheidtová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 1999, 695 s. ISBN 8072031074. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
The course will end with an electronic test.
Language of instruction
Slovak
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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