Italian Fascism 1915 1945

Author : Philip Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230802674

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Italian Fascism, 1915-1945 by Philip Morgan Pdf

It is now 80 years since Mussolini's Fascism came to power in Italy, but the political heirs of the original Fascism are part of government in today's Italy. The resurgence of neo-fascist and neo-Nazi extremism all over Europe are a reminder of the continuing place of fascism in contemporary European society, despite its political and military defeat in 1945. This thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the origins of Fascism and the movement's taking and consolidation of power. Philip Morgan: - Explains how the experience of the First World War created Fascism - Describes how the unsettled post-war conditions in Italy enabled an initially small group of political adventurers around Mussolini to build a large movement and take power in 1922 - Focuses on the workings of the first ever 'totalitarian' system and its impacts on the lives and outlooks of ordinary Italians - Considers the meshing of internal 'fascistisation' and expansionism, which emerged most clearly after 1936 as Italy became more closely aligned with Nazi Germany - Examines the demise of Italian Fascism between 1943 and 1945 as Mussolini and his party became the puppets of Nazism - Provides an explanation and interpretation of Fascism, locating it in contemporary history and taking account of recent debates on the nature of the phenomenon. Clear and approachable, this essential text is ideal for anyone interested in Italy's turbulent political history in the first half of the 20th century.

Author : R J B Bosworth
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141946603

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Mussolini's Italy by R J B Bosworth Pdf

For almost all nations the First World War was an unparalleled disaster, but the Italian experience especially was to have catastrophic consequences. Weakened and embittered, trying and failing to come to terms with 600,000 dead and with an entire generation of men militarized by fighting, Italy gave birth to a new form of political life: Fascism. Richard Bosworth brings to life the period when Italians participated in a vast and ultimately ruinous political experiment under their dictator, Benito Mussolini, and his fascist henchmen. The fascists were the first totalitarians, aiming to reshape Italy and its people utterly. Their regime was based on a cult of violence and obedience. Yet, despite this, Italians found ingenious ways of adapting, limiting, undermining and ridiculing Mussolini's ambitions for them. The heart of this book is its engagement with the life of these ordinary Italians and their families, struggling through terrible times. Bosworth creates a powerful, plausible and entertaining picture of Italian life and a regime which - as the world hurtled towards the cataclysm of the Second World War - was to force humiliation, defeat, invasion and the utter collapse of the nation state.

Author : Mark Robson
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444150865

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Access to History: Italy: The Rise of Fascism 1915-1945: Third edition by Mark Robson Pdf

The new editions of Access to History combine all the strengths of this well-loved series with a new design and features that allow all students access to the content and study skills needed to achieve exam success. The third edition of Italy: Liberalism and Fascism 1870-1945 has been revised to reflect the needs of the current specifications. The new edition starts by examining the weakness of Liberal Italy and how the First World War increased its problems, before going on to analysing and explaining the rise of Fascism and Mussolini's subsequent consolidation of power. It also includes detailed chapters on life in Fascist Italy, its economy, politcal system and foreign policy before concluding with an examination of why Mussolini's regime collapsed in 1943. Throughout the book, key dates, terms and issues are highlighted, and historical interpretations of key debates are outlined. Summary diagrams are included to consolidate knowledge and understanding of the period, and exam style questions and tips for each examination board provide the opportunity to develop exam skills.

Author : R. J. B. Bosworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fascism
ISBN : 1101075716

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Mussolini's Italy by R. J. B. Bosworth Pdf

Author : Philip Morgan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0312123213

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Italian Fascism, 1919-1945 by Philip Morgan Pdf

This thoroughly revised and updated edition provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the origins of Fascism and the movement's taking and consolidation of power. Philip Morgan focuses on the workings of the first ever 'totalitarian' system and its impacts on the lives and outlooks of ordinary Italians. Morgan gives an explanation and interpretation of Fascism which locates its place in contemporary history and takes account of the recent controversial historiographical debates on the nature of the phenomenon.

Author : Victoria de Grazia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520074576

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How Fascism Ruled Women by Victoria de Grazia Pdf

"For the common reader as well as the professional one, Victoria de Grazia opens doors and sheds new light on a fascinating subject."—Mary Gordon, author of The Other Side

Author : Mark Robson
Publisher : Hodder Murray
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fascism
ISBN : 0340907061

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Italy by Mark Robson Pdf

Placing later events in context through a survey of the emergence of the modern Italian state and the liberal monarchy, this text provides a comprehensive account of the rise of fascism and Mussolini's regime until its fall in 1945.

Author : Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520938052

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Fascist Modernities by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Pdf

Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the contemporary European crisis as well as long-standing problems of the national past. Ben-Ghiat shows that—at a time of fears over the erosion of national and social identities—Mussolini presented fascism as a movement that would allow economic development without harm to social boundaries and national traditions. She demonstrates that although the regime largely failed in its attempts to remake Italians as paragons of a distinctly fascist model of mass society, twenty years of fascism did alter the landscape of Italian cultural life. Among younger intellectuals in particular, the dictatorship left a legacy of practices and attitudes that often continued under different political rubrics after 1945.

Author : Federico Finchelstein
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822391555

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Transatlantic Fascism by Federico Finchelstein Pdf

In Transatlantic Fascism, Federico Finchelstein traces the intellectual and cultural connections between Argentine and Italian fascisms, showing how fascism circulates transnationally. From the early 1920s well into the Second World War, Mussolini tried to export Italian fascism to Argentina, the “most Italian” country outside of Italy. (Nearly half the country’s population was of Italian descent.) Drawing on extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, Finchelstein examines Italy’s efforts to promote fascism in Argentina by distributing bribes, sending emissaries, and disseminating propaganda through film, radio, and print. He investigates how Argentina’s political culture was in turn transformed as Italian fascism was appropriated, reinterpreted, and resisted by the state and the mainstream press, as well as by the Left, the Right, and the radical Right. As Finchelstein explains, nacionalismo, the right-wing ideology that developed in Argentina, was not the wholesale imitation of Italian fascism that Mussolini wished it to be. Argentine nacionalistas conflated Catholicism and fascism, making the bold claim that their movement had a central place in God’s designs for their country. Finchelstein explores the fraught efforts of nationalistas to develop a “sacred” ideological doctrine and political program, and he scrutinizes their debates about Nazism, the Spanish Civil War, imperialism, anti-Semitism, and anticommunism. Transatlantic Fascism shows how right-wing groups constructed a distinctive Argentine fascism by appropriating some elements of the Italian model and rejecting others. It reveals the specifically local ways that a global ideology such as fascism crossed national borders.

Author : Michael R. Ebner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521762137

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Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy by Michael R. Ebner Pdf

Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy reveals the centrality of violence to Fascist rule, arguing that the Mussolini regime projected its coercive power deeply and diffusely into society through confinement, imprisonment, low-level physical assaults, economic deprivations, intimidation, discrimination, and other everyday forms of coercion. Fascist repression was thus more intense and ideological than previously thought and even shared some important similarities with Nazi and Soviet terror.

Author : Aaron Gillette
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134527069

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Racial Theories in Fascist Italy by Aaron Gillette Pdf

Racial Theories in Fascist Italy examines the role played by race and racism in the development of Italian identity during the fascist period. The book examines the struggle between Mussolini, the fascist hierarchy, scientists and others in formulating a racial persona that would gain wide acceptance in Italy. This book will be of interest to historians, political scientists concerned with the development of fascism and scholars of race and racism.

Author : John Foot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526652485

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Blood and Power by John Foot Pdf

One hundred years after the rise to power of Fascism in Italy, John Foot's bracing and bold Blood and Power vividly recreates the on-the-ground experience of life under the regime. - Robert S C Gordon, Serena Professor of Italian, University of Cambridge A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war. In the aftermath of the First World War, the seeds of fascism were sown in Italy. While the country reeled in shock, a new movement emerged from the chaos: one that preached hatred for politicians and love for the fatherland; one that promised to build a 'New Roman Empire', and make Italy a great power again. Wearing black shirts and wielding guns, knives and truncheons, the proponents of fascism embraced a climate of violence and rampant masculinity. Led by Mussolini, they would systematically destroy the organisations of the left, murdering and torturing anyone who got in their way. In Blood and Power, historian John Foot draws on decades of research to chart the turbulent years between 1915 and 1945, and beyond. Using the accounts of real people – fascists, anti-fascists, communists, anarchists, victims, perpetrators and bystanders – he tells the story of fascism and its legacy, which still, disturbingly, reverberates to this day.

Author : Philip Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192802477

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The Fall of Mussolini by Philip Morgan Pdf

The dramatic story of Mussolini's fall from power in July 1943, illuminating both the causes and the consequences of this momentous event. Morgan shows how Italians of all classes coped with the extraordinary pressures of wartime living, both on the military and home fronts, and how their experience of the country at war eventually distanced them from the dictator and his fascist regime.Looking beyond Mussolini's initial fall from power, Morgan examines how the Italian people responded to the invasion, occupation, and division of their country by Nazi German and Anglo-American forces - and how crucial the experience of this period was in shaping Italy's post-war sense of nationhood and transition to democracy.

Author : Joshua D. Zimmerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521841011

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Jews in Italy Under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922-1945 by Joshua D. Zimmerman Pdf

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Author : Antonio Morena
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442645974

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Mussolini's Decennale by Antonio Morena Pdf

"The year 1932, the tenth anniversary of Mussolini's March on Rome, was fascism's Decennale. Commemorating Italian fascism's seizure of power, the Decennale was celebrated by the regime in a deliberate attempt to radicalize the original movement and develop it into an imperial and racist regime. In Mussolini's Decennale, Antonio Morena explores a cross-section of Italian culture during the Decennale. Studying literature, speeches, documentaries, films, textbooks, and the 1932 Exhibition, he discusses how the regime, its patrons, and even its critics all appropriated the historical events of 1922 for their political advantage. Positioning the 1932 anniversary celebrations as the crux of the fascist transition from conservatism to totalitarianism, Mussolini's Decennale broadens our understanding of fascist ideology, cultural politics, and Realpolitik."--From publisher's website.