Outline

Overview

This unit will examine the origins and development of the movements of the New Right that emerged in Europe after World War One, paying particular attention to their political, social and cultural manifestations as well as the movements on the left that attempted to confront what was seen as a new political phenomenon. The unit will use primary material of literature, diaries, cinema and photography as well as the more conventional sources of political and historical analysis.

Unit details and rules

Academic unit	History
Credit points	6
Prerequisites ?	12 credit points at 1000 level in History or Ancient History or Asian Studies or Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture
Corequisites ?	None
Prohibitions ?	HSTY2026
Assumed knowledge ?	None
Available to study abroad and exchange students	Yes

Teaching staff

Coordinator	Marco Duranti, marco.duranti@sydney.edu.au
Lecturer(s)	Marco Duranti, marco.duranti@sydney.edu.au
Tutor(s)	Marco Duranti, marco.duranti@sydney.edu.au

Type	Description	Weight	Due	Length
Assignment	Take-home exercise See Canvas	30%	Formal exam period Due date: 06 Jun 2022 at 23:59	1500 words
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Assignment	Discussion posts and tutorial participation See Canvas.	10%	Ongoing	Weekly comments
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Assignment	Essay draft See Canvas.	20%	Week 07 Due date: 08 Apr 2022 at 23:59	1000 words
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Assignment	Research essay See Canvas.	40%	Week 12 Due date: 20 May 2022 at 23:59	2000 words
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Assessment summary

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Assessment criteria

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For more information see guide to grades.

Late submission

In accordance with University policy, these penalties apply when written work is submitted after 11:59pm on the due date:

Deduction of 5% of the maximum mark for each calendar day after the due date.
After ten calendar days late, a mark of zero will be awarded.

This unit has an exception to the standard University policy or supplementary information has been provided by the unit coordinator. This information is displayed below:

5 points per calendar day

Academic integrity

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Use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and automated writing tools

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The unapproved use of these tools or unacknowledged use will be considered a breach of the Academic Integrity Policy and penalties may apply.

Studiosity is permitted unless otherwise indicated by the unit coordinator. The use of this service must be acknowledged in your submission as detailed on the .

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Learning support

Simple extensions

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Special consideration

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Weekly schedule

WK	Topic	Learning activity
Week 01	Introduction to the history of fascism and antifascism	Lecture (2 hr)
Week 02	Ideological origins of fascism	Lecture (2 hr)
Week 02	What is fascism?	Tutorial (1 hr)
Week 03	Causes of the rise of fascism	Lecture (2 hr)
Week 03	What were the long-term causes of fascism?	Tutorial (1 hr)
Week 04	Democracies in crisis	Lecture (2 hr)
Week 04	Mussolini's worldview and rise to power	Tutorial (1 hr)
Week 05	Totalitarianism	Lecture (2 hr)
Week 05	Hitler's worldview and rise to power	Tutorial (1 hr)
Week 06	The cultural and social history of fascism	Lecture (2 hr)
Week 06	Social roots of Italian Fascism	Tutorial (1 hr)
Week 07	Resistance	Lecture (2 hr)
Week 07	Social roots of Nazism	Tutorial (1 hr)
Week 08	Collaboration	Lecture (2 hr)
Week 08	Gender in Fascist Italy	Tutorial (1 hr)
Week 09	FILM: Leni Riefenstahl's 'Triumph of the Will' and 'Olympia'	Lecture (2 hr)
Week 09	Gender in Nazi Germany	Tutorial (1 hr)
Week 10	FILM: Roberto Rossellini's 'Rome: Open City'	Lecture (2 hr)
Week 10	Fascist aesthetics	Tutorial (1 hr)
Week 11	FILM: Bernardo Bertolucci's 'The Conformist'	Lecture (2 hr)
Week 11	Anti-fascist cinema	Tutorial (1 hr)
Week 12	Neo-fascism	Lecture (2 hr)
Week 12	Psychological dimensions of fascism	Tutorial (1 hr)
Week 13	Fascisms in comparison	Lecture (2 hr)
Week 13	Debating fascism in the era of Donald Trump	Tutorial (1 hr)

Study commitment

Typically, there is a minimum expectation of 1.5-2 hours of student effort per week per credit point for units of study offered over a full semester. For a 6 credit point unit, this equates to roughly 120-150 hours of student effort in total.

Required readings

HSTY2626: Fascism & Antifascism

Semester 1, 2022

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Week 1: No tutorial

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Week 2: Definitions of fascism

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Robert Paxton,听The Anatomy of Fascism听(Allen Lane, 2005),听鈥淐hapter 8: What is Fascism?鈥�,听206-220.

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Stanley Payne, "Fascism and Racism" in Terence Ball & Richard Bellamy, eds.,听Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought听(Cambridge UP, 2003), 123-150听

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Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism",听New York Review of Books, 22 June 1995

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Week 3: The origins of fascism

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Kevin Passmore, 鈥楾he Ideological Origins of Fascism before 1914鈥� in听The Oxford Handbook of Fascism听(Oxford UP, 2010)

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Glenda Sluga, 鈥楾he Aftermath of War鈥� in听The Oxford Handbook of Fascism听(Oxford UP, 2010)

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Week 4: Mussolini鈥檚 worldview and rise to power

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Robert Bosworth,听Mussolini, Chapters 6 to 9听

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PRIMARY SOURCE: Benito Mussolini, "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism,"听Political Quarterly, 4 no 3 (1933), 341-356

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Week 5: Hitler鈥檚 worldview and rise to power

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Ian Kershaw,听Hitler, 鈥楥hapter 1: Power of the Idea鈥�

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PRIMARY SOURCE: Adolf Hitler,听Mein Kampf听(originally published 1925-26), Volume 1: Chapters 11 (鈥楴ation and Race鈥�), and 12 (鈥楾he First Period of Development of the National Socialist German Workers鈥� Party鈥�).

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Week 6: Social dimensions of Italian Fascism

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Patrizia Dogliani, 鈥楶ropaganda and Youth鈥�, in听The Oxford Handbook of Fascism

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Frank M. Snowden, 鈥淥n the Social Origins of Agrarian Fascism in Italy,鈥澨�European Journal of Sociology听13, no. 2 (1972): 268-295.

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PRIMARY SOURCE听Giovinezza听lyrics

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PRIMARY SOURCE听1921 Program of the National Fascist Party (PNF)

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Week 7: Social dimensions of Nazism

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Andrew Donson, 鈥榃hy did German youth become fascists?鈥櫶�Social history听31:3 (2006): 337-358.

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Ronald Rogowski, 鈥淭he Gauleiter and the Social Origins of Fascism,鈥澨�Comparative Studies in Society and History听19, no. 4 (1977): 399-430.

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PRIMARY SOURCE: 1920 Platform of the Nazi Party (NSDAP)

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PRIMARY SOURCE: 鈥淭he Educational Principles of the New Germany,鈥澨�NS Frauen听Warte 22 (1936/37), 692-693.

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Week 8: Gendered dimensions of Italian Fascism

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Victoria De Grazia,听How fascism ruled women: Italy, 1922-1945, Chapter 4: 鈥楾he Family Versus the State鈥�

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Maria Fraddosio, 鈥淭he Fallen Hero: The Myth of Mussolini and Fascist Women in the Italian Social Republic鈥� (1943-5),听Journal of Contemporary History听31 (1996): 99-124

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PRIMARY SOURCE: Gaetano Salvemini, 鈥淒o Italian Women Obey Mussolini?鈥�,听Birth Control Review听17:8 (March 1933), 64-66.

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Week 9: Gendered dimensions of Nazism

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Claudia Koonz,听Mothers in the Fatherland,听Chapter 3: 鈥楴azi Women and their 鈥淔reedom Moment鈥濃€�, 51-90.

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Jill Stephenson,听Women in Nazi Germany听(Routledge: 2014), Chapter 2: 鈥楻eproduction, family, sexuality鈥�

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PRIMARY SOURCE: Erna G眉nther, 鈥榃e Women in the Struggle鈥�,听NS Frauen听Warte 2:17, 25 February 1934

Week 10: Fascist aesthetics听

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FILM SCREENING IN LECTURE:听Excerpts from听Triumph of the Will听(1935) and听Olympia听(1938) Part 1 (Teil 1.听Fest der V枚lker).听Leni Riefenstahl (director)

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Susan Sontag, "Fascinating Fascism,鈥澨�New York Review of Books,听February 6, 1975: 31-43.

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Alan Sennett, 鈥淔ilm Propaganda: Triumph of the Will as a Case Study,鈥澨�Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media听55:1 (Spring 2014): 45-65.

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Michael Mackenzie, 鈥淔rom Athens to Berlin: The 1936 Olympics and Leni Riefenstahl鈥檚 Olympia,鈥澨�Critical Inquiry, vol. 29, No. 2 (Winter 2003), 302-336.

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Week 11: Anti-fascist aesthetics

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FILM SCREENING IN LECTURE:听鈥淩ome: Open City鈥澨�(Roberto Rossellini, director,听1945) [Italian:听Roma citt脿 aperta]

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Chapters from Sidney Gottlieb, ed.,听Roberto Rossellini鈥檚 Rome Open City听(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

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Peter Bondanella, 鈥淭he Making of Roma citt脿 aperta: The Legacy of Fascism and the Birth of Neorealism鈥� (Chapter 2)

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Marcia Landy, 鈥淒iverting Clich茅s: Femininity, Masculinity, Melodrama, and Neorealism in听Open City鈥� (Chapter 4)

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Michael P. Rogin, 鈥淢ourning, Melancholia, and the Popular Front: Robert Rossellini鈥檚 Beautiful Revolution鈥� (Chapter 6)

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Week 12: Psychological dimensions of fascism

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FILM SCREENING IN LECTURE:听The Conformist听(Bernardo Bertolucci, director, 1970).

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A. James Gregor,听Interpretations of Fascism, Chapter 3: Fascism as the Consequence of Psychological Disabilities.

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Michael Walker, 鈥淪tyle and Narrative in Bertolucci鈥檚听The Conformist,鈥澨�Cineaction听(1996), 33-42.

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Art Caspary, 鈥�The Conformist: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Fascism,鈥澨�Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, vol. 10, no. 1听(Spring 2002): 115-31.

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Week 13: Debating fascism in the era of Donald Trump

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Collection of newspaper articles and opinion pieces (available online).

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes are what students know, understand and are able to do on completion of a unit of study. They are aligned with the University's graduate qualities and are assessed as part of the curriculum.

Outcomes
Graduate qualities

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

LO1. By studying in depth, in their historical contexts, the important fascist movements in twentieth century Europe you will expand your knowledge of contemporary European history and current political movements, within Europe and without.
LO2. You will acquire a critical understanding of the ways in which historians, scholars in other disciplines, creative artists, and commentators in the media have approached the study of fascism, right wing authoritarianism and antifascism.
LO3. Pursuing an independent research project culminating in an original essay, you will develop analytical and writing skills.
LO4. In conducting research and building bibliographies you will extend your skills in information and digital literacy.
LO5. Through group activities and discussions, you will arrive at informed opinions on controversial historical and contemporary issues, developing your collaborative and communication skills.
LO6. Through group activities and online discussion you will learn to sensitively communicate and explain comparative social, cultural and institutional differences across historical periods and places, integrating diverse perspectives on the past and understand how exploring how axes of inequality (such as class, gender and racial inequalities) have been historically constructed.
LO7. Appreciating how Europe's fascist past informs our own troubled present, you will consider what fascism and antifascism means in the 21st century.

Graduate qualities

The graduate qualities are the qualities and skills that all 爆料王 graduates must demonstrate on successful completion of an award course. As a future Sydney graduate, the set of qualities have been designed to equip you for the contemporary world.

GQ1	Depth of disciplinary expertise Deep disciplinary expertise is the ability to integrate and rigorously apply knowledge, understanding and skills of a recognised discipline defined by scholarly activity, as well as familiarity with evolving practice of the discipline.
GQ2	Critical thinking and problem solving Critical thinking and problem solving are the questioning of ideas, evidence and assumptions in order to propose and evaluate hypotheses or alternative arguments before formulating a conclusion or a solution to an identified problem.
GQ3	Oral and written communication Effective communication, in both oral and written form, is the clear exchange of meaning in a manner that is appropriate to audience and context.
GQ4	Information and digital literacy Information and digital literacy is the ability to locate, interpret, evaluate, manage, adapt, integrate, create and convey information using appropriate resources, tools and strategies.
GQ5	Inventiveness Generating novel ideas and solutions.
GQ6	Cultural competence Cultural Competence is the ability to actively, ethically, respectfully, and successfully engage across and between cultures. In the Australian context, this includes and celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, knowledge systems, and a mature understanding of contemporary issues.
GQ7	Interdisciplinary effectiveness Interdisciplinary effectiveness is the integration and synthesis of multiple viewpoints and practices, working effectively across disciplinary boundaries.
GQ8	Integrated professional, ethical, and personal identity An integrated professional, ethical and personal identity is understanding the interaction between one鈥檚 personal and professional selves in an ethical context.
GQ9	Influence Engaging others in a process, idea or vision.

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Responding to student feedback

This section outlines changes made to this unit following staff and student reviews.

Tutorial readings, topics, and activities have been revised in response to student feedback.

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Overview

Overview

Unit details and rules

Teaching staff

Assessment

Assessment

Assessment summary

Assessment criteria

Late submission

Academic integrity

Learning support

Learning support

Simple extensions

Special consideration

Using AI responsibly

Weekly schedule

Weekly schedule

Study commitment

Required readings

HSTY2626: Fascism & Antifascism

Semester 1, 2022

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes

Graduate qualities

Outcome map

Responding to student feedback

Responding to student feedback

Disclaimer

On this page

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HSTY2626: Fascism and Antifascism

Semester 1, 2022 [Normal day] - Remote

Overview

Overview

Unit details and rules

Teaching staff

Assessment

Assessment

Assessment summary

Assessment criteria

Late submission

Academic integrity

Learning support

Learning support

Simple extensions

Special consideration

Using AI responsibly

Weekly schedule

Weekly schedule

Study commitment

Required readings

HSTY2626: Fascism & Antifascism

Semester 1, 2022

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes

Graduate qualities

Outcome map

Responding to student feedback

Responding to student feedback

Disclaimer

On this page

Useful links