Stanley G. Payne
Born (1934-09-09) September 9, 1934
Denton, Texas, United States
OccupationHistorian
TitleProfessor Emeritus
Academic background
Education
Websitehttps://history.wisc.edu/people/payne-stanley/

Stanley George Payne (born September 9, 1934) is a neo-Francoist revisionist[1][2][3][4][5] American historian of modern Spain and European Fascism at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He retired from full-time teaching in 2004 and is currently Professor Emeritus at its Department of History.[6]

Work

Known for his typological description of fascism, Payne is a specialist in the Spanish fascist movement and has also produced comparative analyses of Western European fascism. He asserts that there were some specific ways in which Nazism paralleled Russian communism to a much greater degree than Fascism was capable of doing. Payne does not propound the theory of "red fascism" or the notion that communism and Nazism are essentially the same. He states that Nazism more nearly paralleled Russian communism than any other noncommunist system has.[7][8]

In the 1960s, his books were published in Spanish by Éditions Ruedo ibérico (ERi), a publishing company set up by Spanish Republican exiles in Paris, France, to publish works forbidden in Spain by the Francoist regime ruling the country at the time. He has been referred to by some historians as a revisionist due to his views.[9] One of his more famous books is Spanish Civil War, The Soviet Union and Communism, which analyzes Joseph Stalin and the Soviet government's intervention in Spain. He also wrote The Franco Regime, The Spanish Civil War and A History of Fascism 1914–1945.

Payne uses a lengthy itemized list of characteristics to identify fascism, including the creation of an authoritarian state; a regulated, state-integrated economic sector; fascist symbolism; anti-liberalism; anti-communism, and anti-conservatism.[10] He sees elimination of the autonomy or, in some cases, complete existence of large-scale capitalism as the common aim of all fascist movements.[11]

After a long shift towards Neo-Francoism,[1] in 2014 he ended up publishing the hagiography Franco. A Personal and Political Biography with Jesús Palacios, a former member of the now-banned Neo-Nazi group CEDADE.[2] Since then, he has been considered an iconic figure in Francoist revisionism,[5][12][4] a stance exacerbated by several more books whitewashing Francoism and the Spanish Empire, as well as his continued support for the far-right[13][14][15] party Vox.[3]

Education

Payne received his bachelor's degree from Pacific Union College in 1955. He went on to earn a masters from Claremont Graduate School and University Center in 1957 and a doctorate (Ph.D.) from Columbia University in 1960.

Books

References

  1. 1 2 Rodríguez Jiménez, Francisco J. (2015). "Stanley G. Payne: ¿Una trayectoria académica ejemplar?". Hispania Nova. Getafe: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (1): 24–54. ISSN 1138-7319.
  2. 1 2 Reig Tapia, Alberto (2015). "La sombra de Franco es alargada". Hispania Nova. Revista de Historia Contemporánea. Getafe: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 1 (Extraordinario). ISSN 1138-7319.
  3. 1 2 "'Memoria Histórica, amenaza para la paz en Europa'" (in Spanish). Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
  4. 1 2 Robledo, Ricardo (2015-01-31). "De leyenda rosa e historia científica: notas sobre el último revisionismo de la Segunda República". Cahiers de civilisation espagnole contemporaine. De 1808 au temps présent (in Spanish) (2/2015). doi:10.4000/ccec.5444. ISSN 1957-7761. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  5. 1 2 "Aguirre y González subvencionaron con 300.000 euros a la fundación de Abascal" (in Spanish). Servimedia. 27 January 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
  6. ↑ Curriculum vitae and photo at Department of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  7. ↑ The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right. Routledge. 2002. p. 67
  8. ↑ Stanley G. Payne. Fascism: Comparison and Definition. University of Wisconsin Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0299080648. pp. 102–104
  9. ↑ Ángel Viñas (ed.), Sin respeto por la historia [extraordinary issue of Hispania Nova] 2015
  10. ↑ Payne, Stanley (1980). Fascism: Comparison and Definition. University of Wisconsin Press, p. 7
  11. ↑ Payne, Stanley G. (1995). A history of fascism, 1914–1945. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0299148706. Retrieved 7 February 2022. What fascist movements had in common was the aim of a new functional relationship for the social and economic systems, eliminating the autonomy (or, in some proposals, the existence) of large-scale capitalism and major industry ...
  12. ↑ Gil Pecharromán, Julio (11 November 2014). "Revisionismo amable". Revista de Libros (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  13. ↑ "Factbox: The rise of Spain's far-right - Vox becomes third-biggest party". Reuters. 10 November 2019.
  14. ↑ "Far-right claims first victories in Spain since Franco era". Axios. 5 December 2018.
  15. ↑

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