Mussolini and Fascist Italy

<p>In <em>Mussolini and Fascist Italy</em> Martin Blinkhorn explains the significance of the man the movement and the regime which dominated Italian life between 1922 and the closing stages of the Second World War. He examines: </p><ul> <li>those aspects of post-Risorgimento Italy which provided the longterm context vital to an understanding of Fascism </li> <li>the social and political convulsions wrought by economic change after 1890 and by Italy’s intervention in the First World War </li> <li>the Fascist movement's rapid rise from obscurity to power and the subsequent establishment of Mussolini’s dictatorship </li> <li>the history of the Fascist regime until its demise during the Second World War </li> <li>the ways in which Italian Fascism has been understood by contemporary analysts and by historians.</li> </ul><p>The third edition of this best-selling Lancaster Pamphlet provides an expanded and fully updated analysis. New features include additional material on Fascist totalitarianism and a completely revised consideration of the ways in which Fascism has been interpreted.</p>