The Extreme Right: Freedom And Security At Risk / Edition 1

by Aurel Braun, Stephen Scheinberg

Overview

This book, offering a historical-sociological account of right-wing extremist movements in American history, seeks to identify threats to freedom and security, assess the responses to such threats, and suggest some means of dealing with the potential dangers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813331515
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	12/27/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1540L (what's this?)

About the Author

Aurel Braun is professor of international relations and political science at the University of Toronto. Stephen Scheinberg is professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal. Aurel Braun is professor of international relations and political science at the University of Toronto. Stephen Scheinberg is professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal.

Table of Contents

Introduction — Right-Wing Extremism: In Search of a Definition — Canada: Right-Wing Extremism in the Peaceable Kingdom — Right-Wing Extremism in the United States — The Extreme Right in the United Kingdom and France — Contemporary Right-Wing Extremism in Germany — The Incomplete Revolutions: The Rise of Extremism in East-Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union — Russia: The Land Inbetween — Poland: The Vanguard of Change — Hungary: From “Goulash Communism” to Pluralistic Democracy — The Internationalization of the Extreme Right — Conclusions — Appendix: List of Research Interviews — About the Book