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Attempting to understand the catalogue of horrors that has
characterised much of twentieth-century history, Western scholars
generally distinguish between violent revolutions of the "right"
and the "left". Fascist regimes are assigned to the evil right,
Marxist-Leninist regimes to the benign left. But this distinction
has left us without a coherent understanding of the revolutionary
history of the twentieth century, contends A. James Gregor in this
insightful book. He traces the evolution of Marxist theory from the
1920s through the 1990s and argues that the ideology of
Marxism-Leninism devolved into fascism. Fascist regimes and
Communist regimes - both anti-democratic ideocracies - are far more
closely related than has been recognised. Employing wide-ranging
primary source materials in Italian, German, Russian, and Chinese,
the book opens with an examination of the first standard Marxist
interpretation of Mussolini's fascism in the early 1920s and
proceeds through the emergence of fascist phenomena in
post-Communist Russia. A clearer understanding of the relation
between fascism and communism provides a sharper lens through which
to view twentieth-century history as well as the present and future
politics of Russia, Communist China, and other non-democratic
states, Gregor concludes.
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