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Fascist Voices - An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy (Hardcover, New)
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Fascist Voices - An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy (Hardcover, New)
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Today Mussolini is remembered as a hated dictator who, along with
Hitler and Stalin, ushered in an era of totalitarian repression
unsurpassed in human history. But how was he viewed by ordinary
Italians during his lifetime?
In Fascist Voices, Christopher Duggan draws on thousands of
letters sent to Mussolini, as well as private diaries and other
primary documents, to show how Italian citizens lived and
experienced the fascist regime under Mussolini from 1922-1943.
Throughout the 1930s, Mussolini received about 1,500 letters a day
from Italian men and women of all social classes writing words of
congratulation, commiseration, thanks, encouragement, or entreaty
on a wide variety of occasions: his birthday and saint's day, after
he had delivered an important speech, on a major fascist
anniversary, when a husband or son had been killed in action. While
Duggan looks at some famous diaries-by such figures as the
anti-fascist constitutional lawyer Piero Calamandrei; the
philosopher Benedetto Croce; and the fascist minister Giuseppe
Bottai-the majority of the voices here come from unpublished
journals, diaries, and transcripts. Utilizing a rich collection of
untapped archival material, Duggan explores "the cult of Il Duce,"
the religious dimensions of totalitarianism, and the
extraordinarily intimate character of the relationship between
Mussolini and millions of Italians. Duggan shows that the figure of
Mussolini was crucial to emotional and political engagement with
the regime; although there was widespread discontent throughout
Italy, little of the criticism was directed at Il Duce himself.
Duggan argues that much of the regime's appeal lay in its capacity
to appropriate the language, values, and iconography of Roman
Catholicism, and that this emphasis on blind faith and emotion over
reason is what made Mussolini's Italy simultaneously so powerful
and so insidious.
Offering a unique perspective on the period, Fascist Voices
captures the responses of private citizens living under fascism and
unravels the remarkable mixture of illusions, hopes, and fears that
led so many to support the regime for so long.
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