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Mussolini in Myth and Memory - The First Totalitarian Dictator (Hardcover)
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Mussolini in Myth and Memory - The First Totalitarian Dictator (Hardcover)
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Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal
reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the
nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European
countries. Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a
totalitarian dictator; Hitler and Stalin have always cast too long
a shadow. But what was a negative judgement on the Duce, considered
innocuous and ineffective, has begun to work to his advantage. As
has occurred with many other European dictators, present-day
popular memory of Mussolini is increasingly indulgent; in Italy and
elsewhere he is remembered as a strong, decisive leader and people
now speak of the 'many good things' done by the regime. After all,
it is said, Mussolini was not like 'the others'. Mussolini in Myth
and Memory argues against this rehabilitation, documenting the
inefficiencies, corruption, and violence of a highly repressive
regime and exploding the myths of Fascist good government. But this
short study does not limit itself to setting the record straight;
it seeks also to answer the question of why there is nostalgia -
not only in Italy - for dictatorial rule. Linking past history and
present memory, Corner's analysis constructs a picture of the
realities of the Italian regime and examines the more general
problem of why, in a moment of evident crisis of western democracy,
people look for strong leadership and take refuge in the memory of
past dictatorships. If, in this book, Fascism is placed in its
totalitarian context and Mussolini emerges firmly in the company of
his fellow dictators, the study also shows how a memory of the
past, formed through reliance on illusion and myth, can affect the
politics of the present.
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