Part One: background. 1. Perspectives on modern Italian history. 2. Perspectives on the study of Fascism. Part Two: Mussolini and Italian Fascism. 3. The Origins of Italian Fascism 1870-1917. 4. Fascism as movement 1917-1921. 5. The road to dictatorship 1921-1926. 6. The Fascist Regime 1926-1936. 7. Mussolini and Hitler 1936-1938. 8. The Second World War and the end of fascism, 1938-45. Part Three: Conclusion. 9. The place of Italian fascism in European history. Part Four: Documents. Further reading. References. Index.
Biography
Giuseppe Finaldi is a lecturer in History at the University of Western Australia. He has worked extensively on Italian social and cultural history in the 19th and 20th centuries.
