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Fascist Italy and the League of Nations, 1922-1935
\"This book analyses the relationship between Fascist Italy and the League of Nations in the interwar years. By uncovering the traces of those Italians working in the organization, this volume investigates Fascist Italy's membership of the League, and explores the dynamics between nationalism and internationalism in Geneva. The relationship between Fascist Italy and the League of Nations was contradictory, shifting from active collaboration to open disagreement. Previous literature has not reflected this oscillation in policy, focusing disproportionally on the problems Italy caused for the League, such as the Ethiopian crisis. Yet Fascist Italy remained in the League for more than fifteen years, and was the third largest power within the institution. How did a Fascist dictatorship fit into an organization espousing principles of liberal internationalism? By using archival sources from four countries, Elisabetta Tollardo shows that Fascist Italy was much more concerned with, and involved in, the League than currently believed\"--Bcak cover.
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Mussolini's Decennale
Positioning the 1932 anniversary celebrations as the crux of the fascist transition from conservatism to totalitarianism,Mussolini's Decennalebroadens our understanding of fascist ideology, cultural politics, andRealpolitik.
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Benedetto Croce and Italian Fascism
Benedetto Croce and Italian Fascism provides a unique analysis of the political life of the major Italian philosopher and literary figure Benedetto Croce (1866-1952). Relying on a range of resources rarely used before in Croce studies – including police documents, archival materials, and the private edition of Croce's diaries, the Taccuini , published in recent years – Fabio Rizi paints an evocative picture of Croce in the fascist era.
Rizi reconsiders Croce's contribution to the struggle against fascism, and demonstrates that Croce's anti-fascist resistance was not passive, as most critics have argued, but rather active in both the political and cultural arenas. Throughout the book, he shows the interplay between Croce's intellectual activity and the political events of the time. His extensive research reveals Croce's own close contact with the key players of the underground movements, and the fact that the fascist authorities regarded Croce as an enemy of the regime.
Tracing Croce's life from his birth in 1866 to his death in 1952, this elegant biography sustains a consistent scope throughout: to clarify former misunderstandings and to better appreciate Croce's contributions to the cause of freedom. Well-documented and well-written, Benedetto Croce and Italian Fascism offers a critical and engaging contribution to Croce studies.
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M : son of the century
\"An epic historical novel that chronicles the birth and rise of fascism in Italy, witnessed through the eyes of its founder, the terrifyingly charismatic figure who would become one of the most notorious dictators of the twentieth century, Benito Mussolini\"-- Provided by publisher
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Between occultism and Nazism : anthroposophy and the politics of race in the fascist era
Peter Staudenmaier's study Between Occultism and Nazism examines the controversial history of Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophist movement in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy as a case study in the political significance of esoteric and alternative spiritual groups.
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The Enemy of the New Man
In this first in-depth historical study of homosexuality in Fascist Italy, Lorenzo Benadusi brings to light immensely important archival documents regarding the sexual politics of the Italian Fascist regime; he adds new insights to the study of the complex relationships of masculinity, sexuality, and Fascism; he explores the connections between new Fascist values and preexisting Italian traditional and Roman Catholic views on morality; he documents both the Fascist regime’s denial of the existence of homosexuality in Italy and its clandestine strategies and motivations for repressing and imprisoning homosexuals; he uncovers the ways that accusations of homosexuality (whether true or false) were used against political and personal enemies; and above all, he shows how homosexuality was deemed the enemy of the Fascist “New Man,” an ideal of a virile warrior and dominating husband vigorously devoted to the “political” function of producing children for the Fascist state. Benadusi investigates the regulation and regimentation of gender in Fascist Italy, and the extent to which, in uneasy concert with the Catholic Church, the regime engaged in the cultural and legal engineering of masculinity and femininity. He cites a wealth of unpublished documents, official speeches, letters, coerced confessions, private letters and diaries, legal documents, and government memos to reveal and analyze how the orders issued by the regime attempted to protect the “integrity of the Italian race.” For the first time, documents from the Vatican archives illuminate how the Catholic Church dealt with issues related to homosexuality during the Fascist period in Italy.
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The Popes against the Protestants
An account of the alliance between the Catholic Church and
the Italian Fascist regime in their campaign against
Protestants Based on previously undisclosed archival
materials, this book tells the fascinating, untold, and troubling
story of an anti-Protestant campaign in Italy that lasted longer,
consumed more clerical energy and cultural space, and generated far
more literature than the war against Italy's Jewish population.
Because clerical leaders in Rome were seeking to build a new
Catholic world in the aftermath of the Great War, Protestants
embodied a special menace, and were seen as carriers of dangers
like heresy, secularism, modernity, and Americanism-as potent
threats to the Catholic precepts that were the true foundations of
Italian civilization, values, and culture. The pope and cardinals
framed the threat of evangelical Christianity as a peril not only
to the Catholic Church but to the fascist government as well,
recruiting some very powerful fascist officials to their cause.
This important book is the first full account of this dangerous
alliance.
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