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Book SynopsisDisagreeing with interpretations of the Fascist movement and regime as "revolutionary" and "leftist", this work, while not ignoring the importance of ideology, 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.
Trade Review"[De Grand] must be congratulated on performing so skillfully the difficult task of providing students (and teachers) of twentieth-century history with a concise yet rounded account of Italian Fascism."—
History"This history . . . commends itself for its clarity, compactness, and grasp of the subject."—
American Historical Review"An excellent synthesis and a balanced interpretation of the historical background and the evolution of the Italian political system under fascism."—
ChoiceTable of ContentsCONTENTS: Preface to the Third Edition Preface Part One The Historical Background, 1870-1922 Chapter One: The Origins of Fascism, 1870-1918 Chapter Two: The Postwar Crisis and the Development of Fascism, 1918-22 Part Two The Fascist Regime in Ascendancy, 1922-35 Chapter Three: Between Movement and Regime, 1922-25 Chapter Four: The Creation of the Regime, 1922-25 Chapter Five: The Fascist Regime and the Great Depression, 1929-34 Chapter Six: Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-35 Part Three The Downward Spiral, 1935-45 Chapter Seven: Fascism at War: Economy and Society, 1935-43 Chapter Eight: The Reorientation of Foreign Policy, 1936-43 Chapter Nine: The Italian Social Republic, 1943-45 Chapter Ten: The Political Culture of Fascism: Ideologies and Intellectuals Chapter Eleven: Conclusion Bibliographic Essay Index
