Doublespeak: The Rhetoric of the Far Right since 1945

Professor Matthew Feldman is a specialist on fascist ideology and the far-right in Europe and the USA. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including three book-length studies, and more than 40 articles or academic book chapters. Published volumes include Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe (Routledge, 2008), A Fascist Century (Palgrave, 2008), and, with Roger Griffin, the five-volume collection Fascism: Critical Concepts (Routledge, 2003). More recent volumes include Doublespeak: The Rhetoric of the Far-Right since 1945 (with Paul Jackson, 2014), The ‘New Man’ in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919–1945 (with Jorge Dagnino and Paul Stocker, 2017), as well as the journal specials Far-right Populism and Lone Wolf Terrorism in Contemporary Europe (Democracy and Security, 2013) and The Ideologies and Ideologues of the Radical Right (Patterns of Prejudice, 2016). His most recent monograph, Ezra Pound’s Fascist Propaganda, 1935-1945, appeared with Palgrave in 2013. He has published two collections of essays with Ibidem Press, Falsifying Beckett (2015) and Politics, Intellectuals, and Faith (2020).

Dr. Dr. h.c. Roger D. Griffin ist emeritierter Professor für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte an der Oxford Brookes University, England. Er ist Mitgründer der International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies sowie der Zeitschrift Fascism (Brill 2012-heute), Autor u.a. von The Nature of Fascism (Pinter 1991, Routledge 1993) und Modernism and Fascism (Palgrave Macmillan 2007) sowie Herausgeber u.a. von Fascism (Oxford UP 1995), International Fascism (Arnold 1998), Critical Concepts of Political Science: Fascism, 5 Bde. (Routledge 2004) und Fascism Past and Present, West and East (ibidem-Verlag 2006).

Per A. Rudling is associate professor of history at Lund University, and, since 2015, visiting senior fellow at the National University of Singapore. His articles have appeared in, among other outlets, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Carl Beck Papers, East European Jewish Affairs, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, and Nationalities Papers. In 2015, his book The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931 (2014) won the Kulczycki Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.