The course will introduce students to the ideologies and histories of the major right radical and fascist movements of the region during the first half of the twentieth century. The course will also cover some of the inter-war and war-time authoritarian regimes which frequently appropriated the symbols and rhetoric of the radical right while remaining essentially conservative (e.g. King Carol II’s dictatorship in Romania). During the course, students will be asked to consider the extent to which right radical movements in Eastern Europe were influenced by the Italian or German ‘model’ of Fascism and Nazism or were, in fact, indigenous or ‘native’.