Fascist voices : an intimate history of Mussolini's Italy / Christopher Duggan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duggan, Christopher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945--Public opinion.

Fascism--Social aspects--Italy.

Fascism and the Catholic Church--Italy.

Fascism and culture--Italy.

Italy--History--1922-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (526 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Today Mussolini is remembered as a hated dictator who, along with Hitler and Stalin, ushered in an era of totalitarian repression unsurpassed in human history. But how was he viewed by ordinary Italians during his lifetime? In Fascist Voices, Christopher Duggan draws on thousands of letters sent to Mussolini, as well as private diaries and other primary documents, to show how Italian citizens lived and experienced the fascist regime under Mussolini from 1922-1943. Throughout the 1930s, Mussolini received about 1,500 letters a day from Italian men and women of all social classes writing words...

Contents:

The fruits of victory, 1919-20

From rhetoric to violence, 1920-22

Return to order, 1922-24

The man of providence

Purifying the nation's soul

Spaces for dissent

Imparting faith

The politics of intimacy

A place in the sun

Defence of the race

War

The road to disaster

The final act

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed June 11, 2013).

ISBN:

0-19-933837-X

OCLC:

846492831