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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.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: The Project, the Party, and the Fascist State
- 1: Postwar Palingenesis: Forming the Fascist Project
- 2: The Rise of Provincial Fascism: Periphery and Centre in the Years before 1925
- 3: Stabilisation in the Provinces: the Party Adapts
- 4: Party and State
- 5: Provincial Battles: Problems in the Party
- 6: The Provincial Party: Activity and Reputation
- Part II: The Party and the People in the 1930s
- 7: Growing Disjunctions: PNF Rule and Popular Reaction
- 8: Perceptions of the Party
- 9: The Crisis of the late 1930s and the 'Totalitarian Phase' of Fascism
- 10: The Flight from the Enchanter
- 11: The Failure of the Party
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Names
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
