This volume constitutes a survey of social science efforts to explain the fascist phenomenon. Interpretations of Fascism provides a review of the efforts that have been made to date to interpret and explain the phenomenon. It addresses itself specifically to those efforts undertaken to provide a social science explanation of Mussolini's Fascism. Dealing with the special application of social science methods to a specific problem, the book provides a special perspective from which to examine fascism in a comparative context. The book should be useful for college courses in political theory, comparative politics, democracy and dictatorship, economic and political change, and modern European history.