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Mussolini in the First World War: The Journalist, The Soldier, The Fascist

By Paul O'Brien

Book information

Publisher
Berg Publishers
Year
2005
ISBN
9781845200510, 1845200519, 1845200527
LCC
DG575.M8 O26 2005
Open Library ID
OL19688329M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2734233 bytes)
Pages
218\218
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

How did Mussolini come to fascism? Standard accounts of the dictator have failed to explain satisfactorily the transition from his pre-World War I "socialism" to his post-war fascism. This controversial new book is the first to examine Mussolini's political trajectory during the Great War through his journalistic writings, speeches and war diary. The author argues that the 1914-18 conflict provided the catalyst for Mussolini to clarify his deep-rooted nationalist tendencies. He demonstrates that Mussolini's interventionism was already anti-socialist and anti-democratic in the early autumn of 1914 and shows how in and through the experience of the conflict the future Duce fine-tuned his authoritarian vision of Italy in a state of permanent mobilization for war.

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