Mussolini and the eclipse of Italian fascism : from dictatorship to populism /
On the tenth anniversary of his rise to power in 1932, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) seemed to many the "good dictator." He was the first totalitarian and the first fascist in modern Europe. But a year later Hitler's entrance onto the political stage signaled a German takeover of the f...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021] |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Plates
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Mussolini and the ghost of Adolf Hitler
- 2. The peculiarities of Italian history and the many birthdays of 1932-3
- 3. A thriving dictatorship: Fascist, totalitarian or Mussolinian?
- 4. Imagining liberal totalitarianism?
- 5. An Italian dictatorship, its dreams of empire and the enveloping shadow of Nazism
- 6. Populist totalitarianism and/or Fascist mysticism under the Duce
- 7. The Fascist map of Europe moves to Africa: Ethiopia, empire and their consequences
- 8. An Axis of evil, Fascist racism and a waning dictator 1936-40
- Conclusion. Worst of dictators? The meaning of Benito Mussolini and Italian Fascism in the age of Trump and the populists
- Notes
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements
- Index