Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Development

✍ Scribed by Alexander J. De Grand

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Edition: Third Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.For the third edition, De Grand has substantially revised the discussion of culture and ideology, the conclusion, and the bibliography. Incorporating the most recent interpretations and research, this introduction to Italian Fascism reinterprets an important development in modern history.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface
Part One. The Historical Background 1870-1922
1. The Origins of Fascism 1870-1918
2. The Postwar Crisis and the Development of Fascism, 1918-22
Part Two. The Fascist Regime in Ascendancy 1922-35
3. Between Movement and Regime 1922-25
4. The Creation of the Regime 1926-29
5. The Fascist Regime and the Great Depression 1929-34
6. Fascist Foreign Policy 1922-35
Part Three. The Downward Spiral 1935-45
7. Fascism at War: Economy and Society 1935-43
8. The Reorientation of Foreign Policy 1936-43
9. The Italian Social Republic 1943-45
10. The Political Culture of Fascism: Ideologies and Intellectuals
11. Conclusion
Bibliographical Essay
Index