But years earlier, Mussolini’s regime was already passing anti-Semitic laws. Italian Fascism glorified the notion of a "pure Italian," evoking an ideal world where men were warriors and women ...
The early warning signs of fascism include, but are not limited to: powerful and continuing nationalism; disdain for human rights; identification of enemies as a unifying cause; rampant ...
In the following months, Mussolini and the Fascists terrorized their enemies throughout Italy and consolidated political power; the movement birthed in Mussolini’s private circles of veterans only a ...
In Italy, Fascism was quick in reaching power, but slow in developing its policies as a régime; in Germany, the process was reversed, so that Germany offers a complete analytical picture of the ...
The Italian government has been criticised for praising fascist soldiers who fought in El Alamein, on the 82nd anniversary of the World War Two battle. In a social media post, it said that those ...
The Italian government has been criticised for praising fascist soldiers who fought in El Alamein, on the 82nd anniversary of the World War Two battle. In a social media post, it said that those who ...
That was how, he noted, Italian Fascism and Nazism began, when Mussolini and Hitler capitalized on mass discontentment after World War I to gain power. Focusing on leaders, Paxton has long held ...
He finds that associationism is a neglected key to the question of why fascism succeeded in some places and not in others. The core of the book consists of three narrative chapters, sandwiched between ...
This course offers and introduction to the Latin literature of Italian fascism (1922-1943) as well as to reading and studying these texts. We will explore these texts’ literary and rhetorical features ...