Mussolini and Fascist Italy - 9780415262064

Taylor & Francis

Mussolini and Fascist ItalyAuthor(s): Martin Blinkhorn\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415262064, 978-0415262064\nSynopsis\nIn Mussolini and Fascist Italy Martin Blinkhorn explains the significance of the man, the movement and the regime which dominated Italian life between 1922 and the closing stages of the Second World War. He examines: \n\nthose aspects of post-Risorgimento Italy which provided the longterm context vital to an understanding of Fascism \nthe social and political convulsions wrought by economic change after 1890 and by Italys intervention in the First World War \nthe Fascist movement's rapid rise from obscurity to power and the subsequent establishment of Mussolinis dictatorship \nthe history of the Fascist regime until its demise during the Second World War \nthe ways in which Italian Fascism has been understood by contemporary analysts and by historians.\n\nThe third edition of this best-sell.