Mussolini

Mussolini

by Clark, Martin

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Benito Mussolini was a brilliant Socialist journalist who in 1914 declared war, put himself at the head if the anti-Socialist movement in Italy, manoeuvred himself into power by 1933 and ruled the country until overthrown in 1943. He was a dynamic but insecure personality, who appeared dictatorial but always had to share power with the military and bureaucratic establishment. Mussolini founded an Empire in Africa and tried to 'make Italians' in his own heroic, war like image, but in fact failed…

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  • Full title :Mussolini / Martin Clark.

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Benito Mussolini was a brilliant Socialist journalist who in 1914 declared war, put himself at the head if the anti-Socialist movement in Italy, manoeuvred himself into power by 1933 and ruled the country until overthrown in 1943. He was a dynamic but insecure personality, who appeared dictatorial but always had to share power with the military and bureaucratic establishment. Mussolini founded an Empire in Africa and tried to 'make Italians' in his own heroic, war like image, but in fact failed to even control his own family! In June 1940, when France fell, he could not resist joining in.

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  • Publication Date:2014.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (372 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781317898405, 1317898400, 9781315845616, 131584561X
  • oclc:ocn881417433
  • LC Classification:DG575.M8
  • Dewey Decimal:945.091/092

Table of Contents

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Glossary and Abbreviations; Introduction Mussolini: Personality and Power; 1 Early Years and the Great War 1883-1918; The Rise to Fame; The Duce of Socialism; A Voice Prophesying War; A Good War; 2 Manoeuvres to Power 1918-22; Peace and Adversity; Vigilantes and Violence; A Man of Peace; The March on Rome; 3 Precarious Tenure 1922-4; The Honeymoon Period; Creating a Majority; The Matteotti Crisis; 4 Making the Fascist State 1925-9; The Uses of Assassination; Taming the Fascists; Innovation at Last.

The Great 'Reconciliation'Conclusion; 5 Targets and 'Battles' 1925-35; 'The Battle for the Lira'; 'The Battle Against the Mafia'; 'The Battle for Wheat'; 'The Battle for Births'; Marching in Rome; Summary; 6 At the Height of his Power? The Regime and the Duce 1929-35; Family and Personality; Government and Colleagues; Party Matters; Coping with Depression; Workers' Playtime; The Ideological Front: Myths and Image; Conclusion: Consensus or Repression?; 7 The Duce Abroad: Propaganda, Peacemaking and War 1922-36; From Lausanne to Locarno 1922-5; From Locarno to Rome 1926-35.

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Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical Chefs d'État -- Biographies. -- Italie Fascism Fascism -- History. -- Italy Fascisme -- Histoire. -- Italie Fascistes -- Biographies. -- Italie Fascists Fascists -- Biography. -- Italy Heads of state Heads of state -- Biography. -- Italy History HISTORY -- Europe Italie -- Histoire -- 1914-1945 Italy Italy -- History -- 1914-1945 Mussolini, Benito

Writers

Clark, Martin

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