The Italian Dictatorship Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism

by Bosworth, R. J. B.

• ISBN13: 9780340677285
• ISBN10: 0340677287
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-15
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

A study of the "myth of Fascism," this book offers a detailed critique of historical accounts of Mussolini and his regime, including writings from 1917 to 1997. Bosworth reviews Fascist, conservative, liberal, and Marxist interpretations of Fascism, and provides insight into the social history of dictatorship and its cultural legacy. This careful inquiry skillfully probes the key debates surrounding Fascism.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Italian "Second Republic" and the history of Fascism: finding or losing a usable past?

Italian Fascism: early understandings 1919-1959 /Mussolini the "Duce": Sawdust Caesar, Roman statesman or Dictator Minor?

Fascist foreign and racial policies: one man alone?

Fascist politics and economies: Mussolini, corporatism, totalitatianism, bureaucratism or continuity?

Fascist society: "totalitarian" modernisation or Catholic/ peasant/ male tradition?

The traces of Fascism in music, film, literature and memory: a Fascist cultural legacy?

Resistance or Civil War 1943-5?

Italian Fascism and models of Fascism

Conclusion

Bibliography

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