Rustic Creations

The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini's Italy

Author	: Paul Corner
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2012-07-19
ISBN 10	: 9780198730699
Pages	: 313 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini's Italy written by Paul Corner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contradicts the current orthodoxy that there was a generalised popular consensus for the fascist regime and for Mussolini's rule, at least until the disasters of the Second World War. Demonstrates that there was widespread and mounting hostility to the regime among large sections of the population, even in the 1930s.

Mussolini in Myth and Memory

Author	: Paul Corner
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2022-09-22
ISBN 10	: 9780192866646
Pages	: 192 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (666 users)

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Download or read book Mussolini in Myth and Memory written by Paul Corner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries. Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a totalitarian dictator; Hitler and Stalin have always cast too long a shadow. But what was a negative judgement on the Duce, considered innocuous and ineffective, has begun to work to his advantage. As has occurred with many other European dictators, present-day popular memory of Mussolini is increasingly indulgent; in Italy and elsewhere he is remembered as a strong, decisive leader and people now speak of the 'many good things' done by the regime. After all, it is said, Mussolini was not like 'the others'. Mussolini in Myth and Memory argues against this rehabilitation, documenting the inefficiencies, corruption, and violence of a highly repressive regime and exploding the myths of Fascist good government. But this short study does not limit itself to setting the record straight; it seeks also to answer the question of why there is nostalgia - not only in Italy - for dictatorial rule. Linking past history and present memory, Corner's analysis constructs a picture of the realities of the Italian regime and examines the more general problem of why, in a moment of evident crisis of western democracy, people look for strong leadership and take refuge in the memory of past dictatorships. If, in this book, Fascism is placed in its totalitarian context and Mussolini emerges firmly in the company of his fellow dictators, the study also shows how a memory of the past, formed through reliance on illusion and myth, can affect the politics of the present.

The Fascist Experience

Author	: Edward R. Tannenbaum
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1972
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015008879143
Pages	: 410 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book The Fascist Experience written by Edward R. Tannenbaum and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tannenbaum "attempts to reconstruct the social context of Fascism's rise by rediscovering the perspective of the Italians who actually experienced it as a patriotic anti-Communist movement of national social renewal ... His sources include Mussolini's correspondence, previously unpublished reports by the party and police officials which records public opinion in the provinces ... the popular press, radio, newsreels, commercial films, postcard art, songs, letters, and textbooks."--Publisher's note.

Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes

Author	: Paul Corner
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2009-10
ISBN 10	: 9780199566525
Pages	: 247 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (665 users)

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Download or read book Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes written by Paul Corner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of internationally acknowledged experts examines the question of popular opinion in totalitarian regimes, looking at the ways in which ordinary people experienced everyday life in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy, with consideration also of Poland and East Germany between 1945 and 1989.

Mussolini and Hitler

Author	: Christian Goeschel
Publisher	: Yale University Press
Release Date	: 2018-09-25
ISBN 10	: 9780300240771
Pages	: 466 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (47 users)

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Download or read book Mussolini and Hitler written by Christian Goeschel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini’s influence on his German ally. In this highly readable book, Goeschel, a scholar of twentieth-century Germany and Italy, revisits all of Mussolini and Hitler’s key meetings and asks how these meetings constructed a powerful image of a strong Fascist-Nazi relationship that still resonates with the general public. His portrait of Mussolini draws on sources ranging beyond political history to reveal a leader who, at times, shaped Hitler’s decisions and was not the gullible buffoon he's often portrayed as. The first comprehensive study of the Mussolini-Hitler relationship, this book is a must-read for scholars and anyone interested in the history of European fascism, World War II, or political leadership.

The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy

Author	: Joshua Arthurs
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2017-02-08
ISBN 10	: 9781137586544
Pages	: 265 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (865 users)

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Download or read book The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy written by Joshua Arthurs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the complex ways in which people lived and worked within the confines of Benito Mussolini’s regime in Italy, variously embracing, appropriating, accommodating and avoiding the regime’s incursions into everyday life. The contributions highlight the experiences of ordinary Italians – midwives and schoolchildren, colonists and soldiers – over the course of the Fascist era, in settings ranging from the street to the farm, and from the kitchen to the police station. At the same time, this volume also provides a framework for understanding the Italian experience in relation to other totalitarian dictatorships in twentieth-century Europe and beyond.

Personality and Power

Author	: Ian Kershaw
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2022-09-29
ISBN 10	: 9780141998244
Pages	: 327 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (982 users)

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Download or read book Personality and Power written by Ian Kershaw and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history? The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities had somehow given them the ability to do whatever they wished. Ian Kershaw's new book is a compelling, lucid and challenging attempt to understand these rulers, whether operating on the widest stage (Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini) or with a more national impact (Tito, Franco). What was it about these leaders and the times they lived in that allowed them such untrammelled and murderous power? And what brought that era to an end? In a contrasting group of profiles, from Churchill to de Gaulle, Adenauer to Gorbachev, and Thatcher to Kohl, Kershaw uses his exceptional skills to think through how other, strikingly different figures wielded power.

Mussolini in Myth and Memory

Author	: Paul Corner
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2022-08-25
ISBN 10	: 9780192691903
Pages	: 192 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (919 users)

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Download or read book Mussolini in Myth and Memory written by Paul Corner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries. Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a totalitarian dictator; Hitler and Stalin have always cast too long a shadow. But what was a negative judgement on the Duce, considered innocuous and ineffective, has begun to work to his advantage. As has occurred with many other European dictators, present-day popular memory of Mussolini is increasingly indulgent; in Italy and elsewhere he is remembered as a strong, decisive leader and people now speak of the 'many good things' done by the regime. After all, it is said, Mussolini was not like 'the others'. Mussolini in Myth and Memory argues against this rehabilitation, documenting the inefficiencies, corruption, and violence of a highly repressive regime and exploding the myths of Fascist good government. But this short study does not limit itself to setting the record straight; it seeks also to answer the question of why there is nostalgia - not only in Italy - for dictatorial rule. Linking past history and present memory, Corner's analysis constructs a picture of the realities of the Italian regime and examines the more general problem of why, in a moment of evident crisis of western democracy, people look for strong leadership and take refuge in the memory of past dictatorships. If, in this book, Fascism is placed in its totalitarian context and Mussolini emerges firmly in the company of his fellow dictators, the study also shows how a memory of the past, formed through reliance on illusion and myth, can affect the politics of the present.

War Through Italian Eyes

Author	: Alexander Henry
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2021-07-19
ISBN 10	: 9781000410099
Pages	: 232 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (1 users)

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Download or read book War Through Italian Eyes written by Alexander Henry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a popular notion that the Italian armed forces of the Second World War were an inferior fighting force. Despite the vast numbers taken prisoner, detailed studies of the experiences of these soldiers remain relatively uncommon and the value of this group to furthering our understanding of the Italian experience of war under Fascism is also rarely acknowledged. The existence in the National Archives of hundreds of pages of transcripts of covert British surveillance of Italian POWs has made it possible to engage with their experiences and opinions in much greater depth. The euphemistically termed ‘Special Reports’ present historians with a unique insight into how all levels of Italian soldiery viewed Fascist Italy’s experience of war, 1940-1943. This book examines reactions to Italian political leadership, the progress of the war, as well as Italian soldiers’ ‘everyday’ views on sex, war, the enemy, death, food, their allies, bravery, race, and killing. These fascinating documents reveal the complexity of the outlook of these men, which persistent – and influential – national stereotypes and historiographical trends fail to acknowledge.

The Vatican and Mussolini's Italy

Author	: Lucia Ceci
Publisher	: BRILL
Release Date	: 2016-10-05
ISBN 10	: 9789004328792
Pages	: 351 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (287 users)

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Download or read book The Vatican and Mussolini's Italy written by Lucia Ceci and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Lucia Ceci reconstructs the relationship between the Catholic Church and Fascism, using new and previously unstudied sources in the Vatican Archives.

Access to History: Italy: The Rise of Fascism 1896–1946 Fifth Edition

Author	: Mark Robson
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2019-08-05
ISBN 10	: 9781510457553
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (575 users)

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Download or read book Access to History: Italy: The Rise of Fascism 1896–1946 Fifth Edition written by Mark Robson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; OCR Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level) Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better grades for over 30 years. Updated to meet the demands of today's A-level specifications, this new generation of Access to History titles includes accurate exam guidance based on examiners' reports, free online activity worksheets and contextual information that underpins students' understanding of the period. - Develop strong historical knowledge: in-depth analysis of each topic is both authoritative and accessible - Build historical skills and understanding: downloadable activity worksheets can be used independently by students or edited by teachers for classwork and homework - Learn, remember and connect important events and people: an introduction to the period, summary diagrams, timelines and links to additional online resources support lessons, revision and coursework - Achieve exam success: practical advice matched to the requirements of your A-level specification incorporates the lessons learnt from previous exams - Engage with sources, interpretations and the latest historical research: students will evaluate a rich collection of visual and written materials, plus key debates that examine the views of different historians

Mussolini and the Eclipse of Italian Fascism

Author	: R. J. B. Bosworth
Publisher	: Yale University Press
Release Date	: 2021-04-27
ISBN 10	: 9780300255829
Pages	: 396 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (558 users)

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Download or read book Mussolini and the Eclipse of Italian Fascism written by R. J. B. Bosworth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive account of how Mussolini pioneered populism in reaction to Hitler’s rise—and thereby reinforced his role as a model for later authoritarian leaders 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 fascist ideology. In this definitive account, eminent historian R.J.B. Bosworth charts Mussolini’s leadership in reaction to Hitler. Bosworth shows how Italy’s decline in ideological pre-eminence, as well as in military and diplomatic power, led Mussolini to pursue a more populist approach: angry and bellicose words at home, violent aggression abroad, and a more extreme emphasis on charisma. In his embittered efforts to bolster an increasingly hollow and ruthless regime, it was Mussolini, rather than Hitler, who offered the model for all subsequent authoritarians.

Rethinking Fascism

Author	: Andrea Di Michele
Publisher	: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date	: 2022-01-19
ISBN 10	: 9783110768633
Pages	: 341 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (686 users)

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Download or read book Rethinking Fascism written by Andrea Di Michele and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes up the stimuli of new international historiography, albeit focusing mainly on the two regimes that undoubtedly provided the model for Fascist movements in Europe, namely the Italian and the German. Starting with a historiographical assessment of the international situation, vis-à-vis studies on Fascism and National Socialism, and then concentrate on certain aspects that are essential to any study of the two dictatorships, namely the complex relationships with their respective societies, the figures of the two dictators and the role of violence. This volume reaches beyond the time-frame encompassing Fascism and National Socialism experiences, directing the attention also toward the period subsequent to their demise. This is done in two ways. On the one hand, examining the uncomfortable architectural legacy left by dictatorships to the democratic societies that came after the war. On the other hand, the book addresses an issue that is very much alive both in the strictly historiographical and political science debate, that is to say, to what extent can the label of Fascism be used to identify political phenomena of these current times, such as movements and parties of the so-called populist and souverainist right.

Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity

Author	: Fernando Esposito
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2015-09-29
ISBN 10	: 9781137362995
Pages	: 419 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (629 users)

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Download or read book Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity written by Fernando Esposito and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological clashes of the interwar period.

Italy in the Modern World

Author	: Linda Reeder
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2019-12-12
ISBN 10	: 9781350005204
Pages	: 344 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (52 users)

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Download or read book Italy in the Modern World written by Linda Reeder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a comprehensive history of Italy from around 1800 to the present, Italy in the Modern World traces the social and cultural transformations that defined the lives of Italians during the 19th and 20th century. The book focuses on how social relations (class, gender and race), science and the arts shaped the political processes of unification, state building, fascism and the postwar world. Split up into four parts covering the making of Italy, the liberal state, war and fascism, and the republic, the text draws on secondary literature and primary sources in order to synthesize current historiographical debates and provide primary documents for classroom use. There are individual chapters on key topics, such as unification, Italians in the world, Italy in the world, science and the arts, fascism, the World Wars, the Cold War, and Italy in the 21st century, as well as a wealth of useful features for students, including: * Comprehensive bibliographic essays covering each of the four parts. * 23 images and 12 maps Italy in the Modern World also firmly places both the nation and its people in a wider global context through a distinctly transnational approach. It is essential reading for all students of modern Italian history.

The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere

Author	: David Jiménez Torres
Publisher	: Berghahn Books
Release Date	: 2019-06-01
ISBN 10	: 9781789202366
Pages	: 326 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (23 users)

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Download or read book The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere written by David Jiménez Torres and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the explosion of the indignados movement beginning in 2011, there has been a renewed interest in the concept of the “public sphere” in a Spanish context: how it relates to society and to political power, and how it has evolved over the centuries. The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere brings together contributions from leading scholars in Hispanic studies, across a wide range of disciplines, to investigate various aspects of these processes, offering a long-term, panoramic view that touches on one of the most urgent issues for contemporary European societies.

Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe

Author	: Sheri Berman
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date	: 2019
ISBN 10	: 9780199373192
Pages	: 561 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (731 users)

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Download or read book Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe written by Sheri Berman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe examines the development of various political regimes in Europe from the ancien regime up through the present day. It analyzes why democracy flourishes at some times and in some places but not others and draws lessons from European history that can help us better understand the political situation the world finds itself in today.