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Mussolini's Italy

Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945

By R. J. B. Bosworth

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From one of the greatest historians in the field, a vivid, brilliant history of Fascist Italy, rulers and ruled

life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century's largest, most notorious, and ultimately most ruinous political experiments-Fascism-under their dicContinue

From one of the greatest historians in the field, a vivid, brilliant history of Fascist Italy, rulers and ruled

life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century's largest, most notorious, and ultimately most ruinous political experiments-Fascism-under their dictator, Benito Mussolini, and his henchmen. The Fascists were the first totalitarians, and they provided a model for many other twentieth-century dictatorships, Hitler's first among them.

A regime based on a cult of violence and obedience, Fascism made immense demands on its subjects, killing many within Italy and its empire and ruining the lives of more. And yet one of R.J.B. Bosworth's most striking accomplishments is to show the gap that yawned between rhetoric and reality. Mussolini's Italy is lumped together with Hitler's Germany as a nightmarish totalitarian state that brutally reengineered an entire society. In fact, Bosworth argues, Fascism, though monstrous enough, had a far shallower impact on Italy because Italy was still such a traditional, undeveloped country, organized around family, tribe, and region, and because Italy's leaders were less ruthlessly ideological than the Nazis. Italians found many and ingenious ways of adapting, limiting, undermining, and ridiculing Mussolini's ambitions for them. The heart of this book is its engagement with the life of these ordinary Italians, struggling through terrible times.

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  • Preface reads nicely. But I want to finish some other books first. Looking forward to it. Interesting, after listening to an podcast lecture on Machiavelli, I wonder if Mussolini was a corruption of Machiavelli's conception of a ruler. Vedremo!

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 720 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1594200785
  • ISBN-13: 9781594200786
  • Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
  • Pub date: Feb 02, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1097 mm x 387 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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