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This book offers a broad comparative perspective on regime building under Axis rule during the Second World War, exploring case studies in Europe and Asia.
List of contents
1. Building Dictatorships under Axis Rule. Towards a Global Overview
Antonio Costa Pinto2. Hácha's Protectorate. Limping Corporatism and Calibrated Collaboration in Bohemia and Moravia under Nazi Rule
Radka Šustrová3. 'Hitler Gave the Slovaks a State': On the Fascistization of Christian Nationalism and Social Catholicism in Tiso's Slovakia, 1939-1942
Miloslav Szabó4.
"Not to recognise oneself as a serf is the worst of servitudes." Marshall Pétain as a dictator, July 1940-August 1944
Marc-Olivier Baruch 5. Norway under Vidkun Quisling: 'Not guilty!'
Stein U. Larsen 6. The short-lived national-socialist Arrow-Cross government in Hungary: imported Fascism vs. local conservatism?
Catherine Horel 7. The Ustasha Regime, State, and Nation-Building Process. State 'Independence' in the Axis 'New Order'
Goran Miljan 8. The Nedi¿ Regime in Occupied Serbia. Conflicting Loyalties and Aims
Rastko Lompar 9. Building a puppet state: Italian Occupation and collaboration in Albania, 1939-1943
Enriketa Pandelejmoni 10. The Italian Social Republic. Legitimation Struggles and Unfulfilled Visions
Goffredo Adinolfi 11.State (dis)continuity in occupied Greece: regimes of emergency
Aristotle Kallis12. Ideology and control: Instruments of authoritarianism in Japanese Manchuria
Thomas David DuBois13. From Constitutional Mirage to Party Hegemony: Building the Wang Jingwei Regime in Japanese-Occupied China (1939-1942)
David Serfass
About the author
António Costa Pinto is a professor of politics at Lusofona University, Campus of Lisbon and a research professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon. His research interests include fascism, democratisation and political elites. Recent publications include:
Looking for An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism. Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America (2021).
Goffredo Adinolfi is a research fellow at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology of the University Institute of Lisbon. His research interests are mainly focused on anti-liberal thought, fascism and populism. He is the author of
The Rise of Mass Parties, Liberal Italy, and the Fascist Dawn (1919-1924) (2025).
Summary
This book offers a broad comparative perspective on regime building under Axis rule during the Second World War, exploring case studies in Europe and Asia.
