1st Edition

Building Dictatorships under Axis Rule War, Military Occupation and Political Regimes

Edited By António Costa Pinto, Goffredo Adinolfi Copyright 2025
324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a broad comparative perspective on regime building under Axis rule during the Second World War, exploring case studies in Europe and Asia. Military occupation represents the highest degree of political, social and economic control over an occupied state and its society. This collective book analyses how the three poles of Axis rule—Nazi Germany, Italian Fascism and... Read more

1. Building Dictatorships under Axis Rule. Towards a Global Overview

António Costa Pinto

2. Hácha’s Protectorate. Limping Corporatism and Calibrated Collaboration in Bohemia and Moravia under Nazi Rule

Radka Šustrová

3. ‘Hitler Gave the Slovaks a State’: On the Fascistization of Christian Nationalism and Social Catholicism in Tiso’s Slovakia, 1939–1942

Miloslav Szabó

4. "Not to recognise oneself as a serf is the worst of servitudes." Marshall Pétain as a Dictator, July 1940–August 1944 

Marc Olivier Baruch

 5. Norway under Vidkun Quisling: ‘Not Guilty!’

 Stein U. Larsen

 6. The Short-Lived National-Socialist Arrow-Cross government in Hungary: Imported Fascism vs. Local Conservatism?

Catherine Horel

 7. The Ustasha Regime, State, and Nation-Building Process: State "Independence" in the Axis "New Order"

Goran Miljan

  8. The Nedić Regime in Occupied Serbia: Conflicting Loyalties and Aims

Rastko Lompar

 9. Under Italian Fascist Rule: Occupation and Collaboration in Albania, 1939–1943

Enriketa Pandelejmoni

 10. The Italian Social Republic: Legitimation Struggles and Unfulfilled Visions

Goffredo Adinolfi

 11.State (dis)continuity in Occupied Greece: Regimes of Emergency

Aristotle Kallis

12. Ideology and Control: Instruments of Authoritarianism in Japanese Manchuria

Thomas David DuBois

13. From Constitutional Mirage to Party Hegemony: Building the Wang Jingwei Regime in Japanese-Occupied China (1939–1942)

David Serfass

14. Concluding Remarks: Axis Rule and Dictatorships in the Era of Fascism

Goffredo Adinolfi and António Costa Pinto

Biography

António Costa Pinto is a professor of politics at Lusofona University, Campus of Lisbon and a research professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon. His research interests include fascism, democratisation and political elites. Recent publications include: Looking for An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism. Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America (2021).

Goffredo Adinolfi is a research fellow at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology of the University Institute of Lisbon. His research interests are mainly focused on anti-liberal thought, fascism and populism. He is the author of The Rise of Mass Parties, Liberal Italy, and the Fascist Dawn (1919–1924) (2025).