Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Development - Softcover

De Grand, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803265786 ISBN 13: 9780803265783

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1989

Synopsis

On October 29, 1922, when Benito Mussolini completed his seizure of power in Italy, the Fascist era began in triumph. It ended some twenty-two years later with the execution of Mus-solini and the collapse of the German-sponsored Italian Social Republic. In this second edition of Italian Fascism, as in the first Alexander De Grand disagrees with recent interpretations of the movement as "revolutionary," "leftist," a model for later Third World modernizing dictatorships. Instead, he sees it 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 second edition De Grand has substantially revised his discussion of culture and ideology as well as the Conclusion and has enlarged the bibliography. Incorporating the most re-cent research, this introduction to Italian Fascism reinterprets an important development in modern history.

About this title

About the Author:

Alexander De Grand, a professor of history at North Carolina State University, is the author of The Italian Nationalist Association and the Rise of Fascism in Italy (1978), also published by the University of Nebraska Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0803265786
• ISBN 13: 9780803265783
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 184