... membership, May 1921. Region Membership Percentage North 114,487 56% Centre 28,704 15% South 44,397 29% Total 187,588 100% Fig. 9. On the eve of the March on Rome Mussolini and his followers in Naples in October 1922 Italy was the first...

..., especially the signing of the Reichskonkordat of 1933. After examining the contradictions of Pius XI’s response to Mussolini’s aggression against Ethiopia and the Vatican’s complex policy during the Spanish Civil War, which reveal the first divergences between the pope and Pacelli...

..., it focuses on key developments in the diplomatic position of the Holy See in this period—the establishment of relations with President Roosevelt, Pius XII’s involvement in the German Generals’ plot in the spring of 1940, and his relations with Mussolini’s Italy after the latter’s entry into the war in June...

..., particularly the “Colonna Rostrata”, a celebratory column that stands in the Giardini and is a symbol for Italy's victory in World War I. The Colonna Rostrata and its environs also reflect the expansionist ambitions of Benito Mussolini's dictatorship and its unrepentant violence. The chapter also looks...

... The television series It Can’t Happen Here Lewis Munich Conference Robinson Edgar Vietnam fascism cinema entertainment language Benito Mussolini non-cognitive performatives rhetoric Google “fascism comes to America,” or search the same topic on Amazon. Thousands of entries pop up. Reformers...

...This chapter assesses how, during the depression years, American fascist sympathizers fashioned images of Italy and Benito Mussolini to suggest the kind of country they wanted the United States to be, and the kind of leader they wanted the United States to have. These observers echoed widespread...

... of specific groups. The only thing that really distinguishes fascism from other concepts is its enormous negative moral charge. Fascism Italian Mussolini Benito Annunzio Gabriel d’ Hitler Adolf Nazism antisemitism women corporatism Griffin Roger Nolte Ernst modernisation Spain totalitarianism...

... democratic legality. The national-populist right is the product of a conscious effort to update fascism, and render it viable in changed conditions. Hall Charles Nazism United States of America White Aryan Legion Franco General Fransisco MSI Spain Benoist Alain de Mussolini Benito capitalism...

... by the German people. Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933 and the increasing disregard for the peace treaty brought a Second World War closer. World War I United States Poland Germany Hindenburg Paul von Hitler Adolf China France Great Britain Japan Mussolini Benito Austria Soviet Union Stalin...

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..., liberals, Catholics, socialists, nationalists, and fascists vied with each other for popular support. ‘Alternative projects of nationhood’ outlines Benito Mussolini’s fascist movement describing its failure as a totalitarian project. It then describes the rise and decline of the Christian democratic take...

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.... While the Chiefs of Staff in London were right to assume that Mussolini would focus on Egypt, due to the vital importance attached to controlling the Suez Canal, they were wrong to conclude that he would enter the war at the first opportunity. Belfield Sir Henry Berlin Conference 1884 British...

... Bellocchio film for some time to receive international distribution. The film tells a story airbrushed from many official biographies of Benito Mussolini—his relationship with Ida Dalser. The interview covered topics such as what initially led Bellocchio to the story of Ida Dalser; and whether he wishes...

...This chapter examines the ways in which literature participated in Benito Mussolini's regeneration campaign and in the creation of a distinctly Italian and fascist model of modernity. Certainly, not all Italian writers and critics accepted the regime's claim to represent the nation, and few...

...This chapter examines the ways in which the films participated in Benito Mussolini's regeneration campaign and in the creation of a distinctly Italian and fascist model of modernity. By 1933, films had replaced novels as the source of new models for youth. Fascist officials also recognized cinema's...

...This chapter examines how the colonial enterprise and racial measures of the regime of Italian leader Benito Mussolini were received by the intellectual class, and looks at the cultural effects of the Rome-Berlin Axis. It analyzes how the Ethiopian War and the events that followed it influenced...

...This chapter investigates how the regime of Italian leader Benito Mussolini depended on culture in order to assert itself as an international power after military debacles ended fascist hopes for political domination during World War II. It shows how young intellectuals such as Luchino Visconti...

...This chapter focuses on 1928–1931, the years in which Betar began its transformation into a mass movement in Poland. Across Europe, admirers of Fascist Italy were sifting through Benito Mussolini's political program in search of an antidote to their own political challenges. Fascist ideology...