Abstract
Many authors have proposed definitions for the question "what is Fascism?", but most of them failed to give a complete definition. The historian Robert O. Paxton answered this question for the first time by focusing on the concrete: what the Fascists did, rather than what they said. To explain the notion of Fascism, Robert O. Paxton proposed in this book to arrive to a concept at the end of this quest, rather than to start with one. To do so, he analyzed minutely each steps of the Fascism evolution; it is to say the way the Fascists movements were created, how did it take roots, how did it get the power and how it exerted the power. Moreover, the historian explored whether fascism could exist outside the early-twentieth-century and outside Europe. First, Robert O. Paxton reminds us the invention and the images of Fascism. Italian revolutionaries used the term "fascio" in the late nineteenth century to evoke the solidarity of committed militants.
