title: Fascism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
author:  Kevin Passmore 
description: <br><strong>Dr Kevin Passmore</strong> is a Reader in History at Cardiff University. His <em>The Right in the Third Republic</em> was published by OUP in November 2012. He has continued to publish widely on fascism since publication of the VSI in 2002, but has also written on the history of the social sciences and historical writing.<br>
zlib_text: Fascism: A Very Short Introduction
  
  
  **‘An impressively wide-ranging and well-informed text’ Richard J. Evans,
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