The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini's Italy - Why Fascism Failed

Zusatztext [a] stimulating, powerfully argued and important new study of the relationship between the fascist party and popular opinion in inter-war Italy Informationen zum Autor Educated at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, Paul Corner has taught in Borneo, England, and Italy. He was research fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, then Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of Italian Society at the University of Reading, and - since 1987 - has been Professor of European History at the University of Siena in Italy where he is also Director of the Centre for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. Author of many publications relating to Italian Fascism and to totalitarianism in general, he has lectured widely on the subject in both Europe and America. Klappentext Contradicts the current orthodoxy that there was a generalised popular consensus for the fascist regime and for Mussolini's rule, at least until the disasters of the Second World War. Demonstrates that there was widespread and mounting hostility to the regime among large sections of the population, even in the 1930s. Zusammenfassung Contradicts the current orthodoxy that there was a generalised popular consensus for the fascist regime and for Mussolini's rule, at least until the disasters of the Second World War. Demonstrates that there was widespread and mounting hostility to the regime among large sections of the population, even in the 1930s.

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• Authors: Paul Corner, Paul (Professor of European History Corner, Corner Paul
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2012
• EAN: 9780198730699
• ISBN: 978-0-19-873069-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Italien, 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.), European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, History - General History, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Italy, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Fascism & Nazism, Social and cultural history, Far-right political ideologies and movements