num_pages: 280
description: What was Italian fascism? Was it the ideology and experience of the trenches brought to political authority? Or did it express the hopes and ideals of an emerging middle class which had done well out of World War I? To what extent was fascism a boys' ideology? And to what degree did Mussolini lead - and to what extent follow - public opinion?
language: English
title: The Italian Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism
titlecomplete: The Italian Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism
genres: Italy, History
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Bloomsbury Academic