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The Italian Fascist Party in Power was first published in 1959.
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Although much significant material on the Italian Fascist party
became available when the regime collapsed, scholars have not made
extensive use of it until now. In this study, which is based on all
the available sources, Professor Germino describes the functions of
the party, ,explains how it was organized to perform tasks, and
discusses conflicts between the party and other power elements in
the dictatorship. He reaches a conclusion contrary to that of most
other scholars -- that Fascist Italy was a full-fledged
totalitarian state resembling Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in
political structure and ideological content. Professor Carl J.
Riedrich of Harvard University writes: "I consider this a major
contribution to our knowledge of totalitarian dictatorship. There
is nothing in the existing literature that can be compared to it
either in terms of depth or analysis, range of documentation or
breadth of treatment." Professor Taylor Cole of Duke University
comments: "Professor Germino has presented an excellent case study
of the Italian Fascist Party. He has made use of more materials on
the Party than any previous writer in English, and has marshalled
them effectively to support his contention that the Fascist Party
did not differ 'in kind' from [the Nazi and Soviet Communist
parties] on the eve of World War II. His conclusion that on most
(though not all) basic counts the Italian Fascist system was to be
classified as 'totalitarian' is controversial, but it merits the
careful attention of all students who are interested in the Italian
Fascist period and in totalitarianism."
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