It has been a commonplace in Italian scholarship that Fascism enjoyed its long tenure not through terror but because of widespread popular consensus. By contrast a recent wave of research has reintroduced the notion of 'totalitarianism' to discussions of Mussolini's regime-yet often without testing the degree of active participation or opposition.
So what was the relationship between Fascists and followers, party and people? Bringing together young Italian scholars-many appearing for the first time in English-engaged in new research on both elites and ordinary people, this volume offers a wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Italian society's involvement in Fascism.
Review: The contributing authors are young scholars, most of them Italian, and their essays showcase important recent approaches to the study of Italian fascism. Some of the chapters draw on their authors' previously published Italian langauge monographs, while others represent newer, ongoing research.
The book thus serves to introduce English-language scholars to a new generation of scholarship that builds upon but also moves beyond earlier debates and approaches. - Journal of Modern Italian Studies
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