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Fascism in Popular Memory: The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class (Studies in Modern Capitalism)

By Luisa Passerini

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780511753213, 0521302900, 9780521302906, 9780521108782
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511753213
LCC
DG975.T97 P3713 1987
Google Books ID
o_KOPwAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL22097361M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3332088 bytes)
Series
Studies in Modern Capitalism
Pages
255\255
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This book is based on the oral life histories of about 70 men and women workers, born between the end of the last century and 1920, which are combined with sources such as police reports, documentary films and judicial documents. The interviewees recount their visions of life, of history, and of themselves; they call to memory the fascist period, and the ambivalent relationship between the Duce and the masses. A picture of resistance emerges, through such minor episodes as jokes and graffiti, wearing a red tie or whistling an old socialist tune, and through major issues such as abortions carried out in direct opposition to state propaganda. Acquiescence is also recalled, however, in the enrolment of children in fascist youth organisations or in the use of new state-controlled social services. The final chapter reconstructs an event that acquired great symbolic meaning: the eloquent and unexpected silence of the Fiat workers before Mussolini in 1939 at the inauguration of the Miraflori factory.

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