Zeev Sternhell
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Zeev Sternhell is the Léon Blum Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Bio
Work
Zeev Sternhell has traced the roots of Fascism to France. He traces the main influences to George Sorel and the Cercle Proudhon. At the time, his research has sparked many critics.
Stanley G. Payne remarks in A History of Fascism that "Zeev Sternhell has conclusively demonstrated that nearly all the ideas found in fascism first appeared in France". pg 291.
Miscellania
- Marcel Déat in Révolution française et révolution allemande (Paris, 1943) relates that "All of Hitler's political ideas had their origin in the Enlightenment." as quoted in A History of Fascism, pg 203.
See also
- J. Salwyn Schapiro a writer on similar lines
- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn a writer on similar lines
Bibliography
- "Fascist Ideology", Fascism, A Reader's Guide, Analyses, Interpretations, Bibliography, edited by Walter Laqueur, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1976. pp 315-376.
- Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France, California
- The Birth of Fascist Ideology, with Mario Sznajder and Maia Asheri, published by Princeton University Press, l989, l994.