Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism (Text Only Edition)
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Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism (Text Only Edition)

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In this fascinating look at the unique conjuncture of factors surrounding Il Duce’s seizure of power, eminent historian Donald Sassoon traces the political circumstances that sent Italy on a collision course with the most destructive war of the century.

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Notes

Chapter 1: The Conjuncture

1 Italo Balbo, Diario 1922, Mondadori, Milan 1932, p.4
2 Giovanni Giolitti, Discorsi extraparlamentari, Einaudi, Turin 1952, p.345
3 Benito Mussolini, Opera Omnia, edited by Edoardo and Duilio Susmel, La Fenice, Florence 1951–1963, Vol. 18, p.464
4 Corriere della sera, 31 October 1922
5 Giovanni Gentile, Che cosa Ăš il fascismo. Discorsi e polemiche, Vallecchi, Florence 1924, p. 123
6 Augusto Turati, Preface to Partito nazionale fascista. Le origini e lo sviluppo delfascismo attraverso gli scritti e la parola del Duce e le deliberazioni del P.N.F., dall’intervento alla marcia su Roma, Libreria del littorio, Roma 1928, p.xv, henceforth Partito nazionale fascista
7 Cited in Antonino Répaci, La marcia su Roma, Rizzoli, Milan 1972, p.18
8 Mussolini, Storia di un anno, 1944, cited in RĂ©paci, La marcia su Roma, cit, p. 17 and also in Renzo De Felice, Mussolini il fascista. La conquista del potere 1921–1925, Einaudi, Turin 1966, p.307n
9 Corriere della sera, 31 October 1922
10 Vinicio Araldi, Camicie nere a Montecitorio: storia parlamentare dell’awento del fascismo, Mursia, Milano 1974, pp. 162–3
11 Emanuele Pugliese, Io difendo l’esercito, Rispoli, Naples 1946, p.30
12 Denis Mack Smith, Italy and its Monarchy, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1989, p.250
13 ‘L’esercito nei giorni della “Marcia su Roma”: dalle memorie storiche della 16a Divisione di Fanteria di stanza a Roma nel 1922’ in Storia Contemporanea, Vol. 15, No. 6, December 1984, p.1209
14 De Felice, Mussolini il fascista, cit., pp.324–5
15 ‘L’esercito nei giorni della “Marcia su Roma” 
’, p.1208
16 Mario Piazzesi, Diario di uno squadrista toscano 1919–1922, Bonacci editore, Rome 1980, pp.245, 51
17 Cited in Répaci, La marcia su Roma, cit., p.455
18 Ibid., p.414
19 Giulia Albanese, ‘Dire violenza, fare violenza. Espressione, minaccia, occultamento e pratica della violenza durante la Marcia su Roma’ in Memoria e Ricerca, No. 13, May–August 2003, p. 59
20 Balbo, Diario 1922, cit., p.185
21 Corriere della sera, 31 October 1922
22 Ibid.
23 Partito nazionale fascista, cit., p. 140
24 In ‘Lettere aperte a Mussolini’ published in Il Popolo d’Italia (1920–21) collected in Gioacchino Volpe, Guerra Dopoguerra Fascismo, La Nuova Italia, Venice 1928, pp.261–6. Volpe joined the fascists in 1921
25 Benedetto Croce, Nuovepagine sparse, Vol. 1, Riccardo Ricciardi editore, Naples 1949 pp.62–3
26 Pierre Milza, Mussolini, Fayard, Paris 1999, p.9; Richard J.B. Bosworth, Mussolini, Arnold, London 2002, p.46
27 Martin Clark, Mussolini, Pearson Longman, Harlow 2005, p.9
28 Benito Mussolini, Il mio diario di Guerra (1915–1917), Imperia, Milano 1923, p.80
29 De Felice, Mussolini il fascista, cit., pp. 10–11
30 Marco Palla, ‘La presenza del fascismo. Geografia e storia quantitativa’ in Italia Contemporanea, No. 184, September 1991, p.400
31 Palmiro Togliatti, Lectures on Fascism, Lawrence and Wishart, London 1976, pp.15, 24–5
32 Corriere della sera, 1 November 1922; Gianpasquale Santomassimo, La Marcia su Roma, Giunti, Florence 2000, p.74
33 Reported by Massimo Rocca, once an anarchist then one of Mussolini’s early supporters, expelled from the party in May 1924 in his Come il fascismo divenne una dittatura. Storia interna del fascismo dal 1914 al 1925, ELI, Milan 1952, pp.117, 122
34 Lenin, Left–Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder, in Collected Works, Vol. 31, Progress Publishers, Moscow 1966, p.85. Emphasis in the original
35 Terry Pinkard, Hegel. A Biography, CUP 2000, p.228
36 See articles in L’Ordine nuovo, 19 August and 23 August and 1921, in Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Political Writings 1921–1926, Lawrence and Wishart, London 1968, pp.61–5
37 Antonio Gramsci, leader in L’Ordine nuovo, March 1924 (unsigned) in Gramsci, Selections from the Political Writings 1921–1926, cit., p.212
38 Max Weber, Economy and Society. An outline of interpretative sociology, Vol. 1, University of California Press 1978, p.241
39 Paul Preston, Franco. A Biography, HarperCollins...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. ONE The Conjuncture
  5. TWO A Divisive War – a Lost Victory
  6. THREE The Parliamentary Crisis
  7. FOUR The Advance of Fascism
  8. FIVE ‘We Need a Strong Government’
  9. Notes
  10. Bibliography Of Works Cited
  11. Index
  12. About the Author
  13. By The Same Author
  14. Copyright
  15. About the Publisher