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Mussolini's Italy : life under the dictatorship, 1915-1945

An evaluation of Italy's notorious Fascist period under dictator Benito Mussolini considers its violence and demands for obedience, noting how it served as a model for other twentieth-century dictatorships while arguing that the nation's largely undeveloped country and tribal family structures helped Italians to devise creative survival and resistance methods
eBook, English, 2006
1st American ed View all formats and editions
Penguin Books, New York, 2006
History
1 online resource (xxvi, 692 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780141946603, 9781101078570, 9781594200786, 0141946601, 110107857X, 1594200785
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One Italy or another before 1914
Liberal and dynastic war
Popular and national war
1919
Becoming a fascist
Learning to rule in the provinces
Learning to rule from Rome
Building a totalitarian dictatorship
Forging fascist society
Placing Italy in Europe
Going to the people
Dictating full-time
Becoming imperialists
Embracing Nazi Germany
Lurching into war
The wages of fascist war
Losing all the wars
The fascist heritage
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010