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Authors: P. Knight
ISBN-13: 9780415279215, ISBN-10: 0415279216
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: P. Knight

Patricia Knight is a Senior Lecturer at City and Islington College where she has taught GCSE and A Level History. Her publications include The Spanish Civil War (1998).

Book Synopsis

The early twentieth century in Italy was a crucial period in its history. Mussolini and Fascism surveys all the important issues and topics of the period including the origins and rise of Fascism, Mussolini as Prime Minister and Dictator, the Totalitarian state, foreign policy and the Second World War. It also examines how Italian Fascism compared to other inter-war dictatorships.

	List of illustrations
	Series preface
	Acknowledgements
1	Liberal Italy and the origins of Fascism	1
2	The rise of Fascism: Italy from 1919 to 1922	14
3	From Prime Minister to dictator, 1922 to 1926	31
4	A totalitarian regime? Mussolini and the Fascist state	45
5	'Transforming Italy': how successful were Fascist economic and social policies?	64
6	'Great, respected and feared': how successful was Mussolini's foreign policy from 1922 to 1938?	81
7	'A brutal friendship'? the German alliance, war and Mussolini's downfall	97
8	Fascism and Nazism	112
	Notes	122
	Select bibliography	130
	Index	133