Mussolini.

Mussolini.

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Benito Mussolini was a brilliant Socialist journalist who in 1914 declared war, put himself at the head if the anti-Socialist movement in Italy, manoeuvred himself into power by 1933 and ruled the country until overthrown in 1943. He was a dynamic but insecure personality, who appeared dictatorial b...

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Author / Creator: Clark, Martin.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: London : Taylor & Francis Group, 2005.
Series:Profiles in Power Ser.
Subjects:
Mussolini, Benito, > 1883-1945.
Fascists > Italy > Biography.
Heads of state > Italy > Biography.
Fascism > Italy > History.
Italy > History > 1914-1945.
Electronic books.
Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Glossary and Abbreviations
  • Introduction Mussolini: Personality and Power
  • 1 Early Years and the Great War 1883-1918
  • The Rise to Fame
  • The Duce of Socialism
  • A Voice Prophesying War
  • A Good War
  • 2 Manoeuvres to Power 1918-22
  • Peace and Adversity
  • Vigilantes and Violence
  • A Man of Peace
  • The March on Rome
  • 3 Precarious Tenure 1922-4
  • The Honeymoon Period
  • Creating a Majority
  • The Matteotti Crisis
  • 4 Making the Fascist State 1925-9
  • The Uses of Assassination
  • Taming the Fascists
  • Innovation at Last
  • The Great 'Reconciliation'
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Targets and 'Battles' 1925-35
  • 'The Battle for the Lira'
  • 'The Battle Against the Mafia'
  • 'The Battle for Wheat'
  • 'The Battle for Births'
  • Marching in Rome
  • Summary
  • 6 At the Height of his Power? The Regime and the Duce 1929-35
  • Family and Personality
  • Government and Colleagues
  • Party Matters
  • Coping with Depression
  • Workers' Playtime
  • The Ideological Front: Myths and Image
  • Conclusion: Consensus or Repression?
  • 7 The Duce Abroad: Propaganda, Peacemaking and War 1922-36
  • From Lausanne to Locarno 1922-5
  • From Locarno to Rome 1926-35
  • From Rome to Addis Ababa, via Stresa 1935-6
  • The Triumph of the Duce?
  • 8 Electing a New People 1936-40
  • The Duce's Cultural Revolution
  • Economic Problems
  • Race and Religion
  • The Ciano Cabinet
  • A Warrior Race?
  • 9 The Approach of War 1936-40
  • The Spanish Civil War and the Axis
  • 1938: The Anschluss and Easter
  • From Munich to the Pact of Steel 1938-9
  • Keeping Out of War: Summer 1939
  • Joining After All: Spring 1940
  • Conclusion
  • 10 The Duce at War 1940-3
  • Italy's Campaigns
  • The Duce as War Leader
  • Arms and the Man
  • Morale and the Home Front
  • Decline and Fall of a Roman Empire.
  • 11 The Years of Captivity 1943-5
  • From Ponza to the Gran Sasso
  • A Republic at Salò
  • The Trial of Verona
  • Disillusion and Disorder
  • The Last Months at Salò 1944-5
  • From Milan to Dongo, and Back
  • Conclusion: Debates Among Historians
  • Chronology
  • Index.

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