Italian Fascism, 1919-1945 (Making of the Twentieth Century)

by PhilipMorgan (Author), PhilipMorgan (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $4.98

  This book charts the evolution of Italian Fascism from its inconspicuous beginnings as an anti-party movement in 1919 to its equally inauspicious ending as a Nazi German satellite in 1945. It shows how and why Fascism came to power in 1922 as a mass movement of middle class reaction against socialism and parliamentary liberal policies in a period of serious postwar political and social crisis, and how the attempt to implant a totalitarian new order culminated in a Fascist war which exposed the pretensions and inadequacies of 'fascistization' and dissolved the Fascist consensus.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $45.38

  A critical and comprehensive overview of the origins of Fascism and the movement's taking and consolidation of power, in which Philip Morgan focuses on the workings of the first ever totalitarian system and its impacts on the lives and outlooks of ordinary Italians.