Did you know that Nazi Germany was a pioneer in legislating in favour of environmentalism and animal rights? And that the British Union of Fascists was the first British party to have 10% female membership?

Did you know that Nazi Germany was a pioneer in legislating in favour of environmentalism and animal rights? Or that its origins are closely linked to the artistic avant-garde? That the British Union of Fascists was the first British party to have 10% female membership? And that it tried to unite social demands with the Third Position?
The term fascism has been the subject of a wide variety of opinions and definitions, which is why it is always the subject of debate in political science. But do we really know what it is? Can we understand why, in the first years of its creation, Jews were overrepresented in the National Fascist Party, compared to Italian society?
This book explores this and other issues in an entertaining and educational way. It allows us to delve into the ideology and its variants, in order to learn about different realities of it in different contexts that will surprise us. For example, the striking position adopted by a sector of National Socialism supporting the independence of various European territories, the feminist demands that a good part of the former British suffragettes added to the party... or the existence of a sector directly influenced by völkisch (populist) nationalism within German Zionism.
Through unknown episodes, the author manages to help us understand fascism wherever it spread - Italy, Germany, Spain, Latin America... - while introducing us to its most unknown milestones: Mussolini's conquest of power with the march on Rome, Hitler's attempted coup d'état in 1923 and his subsequent victory in the democratic elections ten years later, the different movements that emerged in Europe in the 1930s, in countries such as Poland, Croatia and Spain.
Iñigo Bolinaga answers, in a way that is as agile as it is rigorous, the central questions for understanding this political movement: What is fascism really? How many types of fascism were there? What were its moments of glory... and fall?

«Iñigo Bolinaga investigates with the firmness of a hammer and the tenacity of a Cistercian monk, which is why each of his works is essential». Javier Ors, La Razón.