Totaliatiarianism, Its Intellectual and Social Roots

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism [Except that, as writers like Popper, Sternhell, Mazower, etc., etc., show, she was wrong in writing as though totalitarianism was something that crawled out from under the floorboards of European thought; it has a long and respectable pedigree, which included Arendt's own philosophy teachers.]
Ian Kershaw
- The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich
- Hitler [Biography in 2 vols.]
Leszek Kolakowski, Main Currents of Marxism
Kanan Makiya (as Samir al-Khalil), Republic of Fear
Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century
George L. Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich
Robert O. Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism
Stanley Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914--1945
Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies [It's somewhat surprising that the three best books on this are all by philosophers, and very different ones at that.]
Fritz Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology [micro-review]
Zeev Sternhell, Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France [Badly written but important]
Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler
Eugen Weber, Varieties of Fascism
Richard Wolin, The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism

Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922--1945 [Blurb]
Wolfgang Benz, A Concise History of the Third Reich [Blurb]
Beradt, The Third Reich of Dreams
Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons, Too Close for Comfort: Right-Wing Populism, Scapegoating, and Fascist Potentials in US Political Traditions
Christoph Buchheim and Jonas Scherner, "The Role of Private Property in the Nazi Economy: The Case of Industry", The Journal of Economic History 66 (2006): 390--416
Daniel Chirot, Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age
Isaac Deutcher, Stalin
Andrew Donson, "Why did German youth become fascists? Nationalist males born 1900 to 1908 in war and revolution", Social History 31 (2006): 337--358
Michael Fainsod, Smolensk Under Soviet Rule
Emilio Gentile
- Politics as Religion [Blurb, ch. 1]
- The Italian Road to Totalitarianism: The Party and the State in the Fascist Regime [forthcoming]
Glaser, Cultural Roots of National Socialism
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity
A. James Gregor, Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought
Michael Halberstam, Totalitarianism and the Modern Conception of Politics
Eli Halevy, The Age of Tyranny
Jeffrey Herf, Reactionary Modernism: Technology, culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich
Ian Kershaw and Moshe Lewin (eds.), Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison
Claudia Koonz, The Nazi Conscience [Blurb]
Michael Mann, Fascists [Blurb]
Thomas Mann's essays on the roots of Nazism in German culture
G. L. Morse
- The Fascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascism
- The Nationalization of the Masses
Jan-Werner Mueller, A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought
Franz Neumann, Behemoth: the Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933--1944
Ernst Nolte, Fascism in Its Epoch
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History [Blurb]
Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Economy and Class Structure of German Fascism ["reads like a thriller"]
christian Stögbauer and John Komlos, "Averting the Nazi seizure of power: A Counterfactual thought experiment", European Review of Economic History 8 (2004): 173--1999
J. L. Talmon, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
Arthur Versluis, The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism [Blurb]
Weiss, The Fascist Tradition
E. Spencer Wellhoffer, "Democracy and Fascism: Class, Civil Society, and Rational Choice in Italy", American Political Science Review 97 (2003): 91--106
Richard Wolin, Heidegger's Children

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Totaliatiarianism, Its Intellectual and Social Roots