| Description |
xi, 209 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm |
| Series |
The making of the 20th century |
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Making of the 20th century.
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| Contents |
Part I. The Conquest of Power, 1919-29. 1. The Postwar Crisis and the Rise of Fascism, 1919-22 --- 2. Between 'Normalisation' and 'Revolution', 1922-5 --- 3. The Construction of the 'Totalitarian' State, 1925-9 ---- Part II. The Fascist Regime, 1929-36. 4. The Years of the Great Depression, 1929-34 --- 5. The Creation of the Fascist Empire, 1935-6 ---- Part III. Fascist Expansionism at Home and Abroad, 1936-43. 6. The Axis Connection and the 'Fascistisation' of Italian Society, 1936-40 --- 7. Fascist Italy at War, 1940-3 ---- Epilogue: The Italian Social Republic, 1943-5 |
| Summary |
This book charts the evolution of Italian Fascism from its inconspicuous beginnings as an anti-party movement in 1919 to its equally inauspicious ending as a Nazi German satellite in 1945. It shows how and why Fascism came to power in 1922 as a mass movement of middle class reaction against socialism and parliamentary liberal policies in a period of serious postwar political and social crisis, and how the attempt to implant a totalitarian new order culminated in a Fascist war which exposed the pretensions and inadequacies of 'fascistization' and dissolved the Fascist consensus |
| Analysis |
Fascism History |
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Italy |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index |
| Subject |
Fascism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.
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| SUBJECT |
Italy -- Politics and government -- 1914-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069011
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| ISBN |
0333537785 |
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0333537793 |
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9780333537787 |
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9780333537794 |
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