The rise and victory of Italian Fascism in the first half of the 1920s passed Greece by. Yet soon afterwards the international experience of ‘fascism’ found more receptive audiences within the prodigious dissident ‘third spaces’ where more and more mainstream Greek political actors chose to operate in the interwar period. This article explores the dynamics of the ideological and political formation of ‘third ways’ in interwar Greece, paying attention to the interplay between international stimuli and local contextual singularities. In these thirding spaces ‘fascism’ was understood and operationalised in very different, subjective, and ever-shifting ways by each of these actors. It was regarded mostly as a potential component of diverse thirding processes/solutions and rarely as the desired outcome thereof. This explains why fascism came to inform a range of very different thirding projects in interwar Greece—from pursuing rupture and renewal to aspiring to status quo-affirmation; from liberal to conservative to authoritarian visions; from searching for a short-term ‘remedy’ to envisioning a long-term radical transformation.

20 年代上半叶意大利法西斯主义的崛起和胜利与希腊擦肩而过。然而不久之后，“法西斯主义”的国际经验在巨大的持不同政见者“第三空间”中找到了更多的接受者，越来越多的主流希腊政治参与者选择在两次世界大战之间的时期运作。本文探讨了两次世界大战之间希腊“第三条道路”的意识形态和政治形成的动态，关注国际刺激与当地背景奇异性之间的相互作用。在这些第三方空间中，“法西斯主义”被这些参与者中的每一个以非常不同的、主观的和不断变化的方式理解和实施。它主要被视为各种第三方流程/解决方案的潜在组成部分，很少被视为期望的结果。这就解释了为什么法西斯主义开始为两次世界大战之间的希腊提供一系列截然不同的第三方项目——从追求破裂和复兴到渴望维持现状；从自由主义到保守主义再到专制主义的愿景；从寻找短期“补救措施”到设想长期的根本转变。