Mussolini in Myth and Memory

Auteur
Paul Corner is Emeritus Professor of European History and former Director of the Centre for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes at the University of Siena. He is the author of a number of books, including The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini's Italy (OUP, 2012) and Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes: Fascism, Nazism, Communism (OUP, 2009).

Texte du rabat

Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries.

Contenu

1 History, memory, and amnesia; 2 'Kind-hearted' Fascism: exploding the myth; 3 Italy: a nation of Fascists?; 4 Things were better when HE was in charge...; 5 Mussolini: twentieth century statesman?; 6 Mussolini as moderniser: a developmental dictatorship?; 7 Mussolini: myth and memory