Italian fascism : its origins & development
"On October 29, 1922, when Benito Mussolini completed the March on Rome and was appointed prime minister of Italy, the Fascist regime began in triumph. It ended some twenty-two years later with the execution of Mussolini and the collapse of the German-inspired Italian Social Republic. In this third edition of Italian Fascism Alexander De Grand maintains his disagreement with recent interpretations of the movement and regime as "revolutionary" and "leftist." While not ignoring the importance of ideology, he sees Fascism in Italy as a bourgeois response to the challenge of proletarian revolution and an approach to the problem of conservative control in an era of mass politics."
Print Book, English, ©2000
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©2000
History
xvi, 191 pages : map ; 21 cm
9780803266223, 0803266227
42462895
CONTENTS: Preface to the Third Edition Preface Part One The Historical Background, 1870-1922 Chapter One: The Origins of Fascism, 1870-1918 Chapter Two: The Postwar Crisis and the Development of Fascism, 1918-22 Part Two The Fascist Regime in Ascendancy, 1922-35 Chapter Three: Between Movement and Regime, 1922-25 Chapter Four: The Creation of the Regime, 1922-25 Chapter Five: The Fascist Regime and the Great Depression, 1929-34 Chapter Six: Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-35 Part Three The Downward Spiral, 1935-45 Chapter Seven: Fascism at War: Economy and Society, 1935-43 Chapter Eight: The Reorientation of Foreign Policy, 1936-43 Chapter Nine: The Italian Social Republic, 1943-45 Chapter Ten: The Political Culture of Fascism: Ideologies and Intellectuals Chapter Eleven: Conclusion Bibliographic Essay Index