In the end, Goeschel, demonstrates that there was a real friendship between the two, albeit fraught with jealousy, misunderstanding, and personal ambitions, which helped shape the war. Mussolini and ...

Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy analyses this system of political confinement and, more broadly, its effects on Italian society, revealing the centrality of political violence to Fascist rule.

Pegher oddly does not mention the domestic aspects of “Italianization”, in the efforts following the unification of Italy in 1861 to suppress regional dialects in favor of Tuscan, and Mussolini’s own ...

Mussolini was a protean figure, with a sponge-like capacity to absorb and shape himself to the cultural currents of his time; and in 1920s–30s Italy, one of the most vital of these currents was the ...