EAST CENTRAL EUROPE/L'EUROPE DU CENTRE EST Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift (ECE), a trilingual refereed international journal of the social sciences and humanities with a focus on the region "between the Baltic and the Adriatic," invites the submission of original and high-quality articles of approximately 8,000 to 10,000 words for its next thematic issue on "Fascism in East-Central Europe: A Reappraisal."
ECE has been established in 1974 and it is hosted and financed since 2004 by Pasts, Inc., Institute of Historical Studies, Central European University, Budapest. The journal started a new series with a first double issue on Symbolic Geographies (see
http://www.pasts.ceu.hu/fileadmin/template/www.pasts.ceu.hu/files/int-history/ece_2005-1_contents-febr_01.doc), followed by a second issue on urban culture in East-Central Europe, 19th and 20th centuries.
The editors are welcoming contributions (in English, French or German) for a thematic issue on fascism and radical nationalism in interwar East-Central Europe. Despite the renewed academic interest in fascism in the last decades, fascism in East-Central Europe has remained largely under-researched. The few available national case studies or general syntheses of European history often treat fascism
in East-Central Europe as a kind of "mutant" or "peripheral" phenomenon, generally isolating it from mainstream research on "core" countries, such as Italy and Germany.
Yet, fascism in East-Central Europe was not simply an offspring of German National Socialism or Italian Fascism and cannot be discarded as an imported phenomenon. It exhibited a remarkable political vitality, mass appeal, and ideological originality, combining general fascist features with local specificity. In view of recent innovative research on fascist studies, the thematic issue aims at exploring the
place of East-Central European fascism within general theories of "generic fascism." To this end, we invite contributions on inter-war fascism and its relation to nationalism and authoritarian regimes in the region, largely defined; articles on new themes in fascist studies, such as fascism and mass politics, fascism as
totalitarianism, fascism and religion, fascism and the "aesthetization" of politics, etc; and review essays on various historiographical issues pertaining to fascism in East-Central Europe. The main goals of the issue are to provide a comprehensive
overview of the state of the art in research on fascism in the region and to integrate this topic more firmly into mainstream fascism studies, in order to enhance our understanding of fascism as an integrated European phenomenon
We will consider for publication scholarly contributions reaching us via electronic mail (ece@ceu.hu) by the 1st of December 2006. For additional information please visit Pasts Inc.'s website: www.pasts.ceu.hu/ece or contact us at ece@ceu.hu
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