Consists of 11 essays that examine fascism's causes and effects by various Llewellyn Woodward, The Study of Contemporary History; George L. Mosse, The Genesis of Fascism; Robert J. Soucy, The Nature of Fascism in France; Gilbert D. Allardyce, The Political Transition of Jacques Doriot; Adrian Lyttelton, Fascism in Italy - The Second Wave; Eugen Weber, The Men of the Archangel; Ludwig Jedlicka, The Austrian Heimwehr; Paul M. Hayes, Quisling's Political Ideas; Erwin Oberlander, The All-Russian Fascist Party; Hugh Thomas, The Hero in the Empty Room -- Jose Antonio and Spanish Fascism; Hugh Seton-Watson, Fascism Right and Left