For the first time, Fernando Rosas, Professor of the History of the Estado Novo and one of the great specialists in the History of Contemporary Portugal, has written a comparative essay on Fascism, a phenomenon that emerged in Europe in the 1930s.

In this book, Rosas explains the emergence of Fascism, the circumstances and historical context that allowed it to flourish, and describes the various faces that the movement took on in different countries: Spain, Italy, Germany, but also lesser-known cases, but no less chilling, such as Hungary and Romania. What's more, Fernando Rosas doesn't hesitate to place Salazarism in the same historical category, and he explains why.

Salazar e os Fascismos also puts forward a thesis about the present day: - What are these authoritarianisms that have been gaining power since 2016?