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 Mussolini in Myth and Memory
The First Totalitarian Dictator
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.

Mussolini in Myth and Memory The First Totalitarian Dictator 1st Table of contents:

 1. History, memory, and amnesia
2. ‘Good-natured Fascism’: Exploding the myth
A regime of violence
Mechanisms of social control
3. Italy: A nation of fascists?
Mass consensus and mass coercion
The role of the Party
4. Things were better when HE was in charge…
The social priorities of Fascism
Hierarchies of benefit: wages, contracts, unions
The social state: pensions, social insurance, assistance
Domestic Fascism_ family, health, and housing
Justice, legality—and the mafia
5. Mussolini: Twentieth-century statesman?
Hitler—the one mistake?
Imperial illusions: Ethiopia and beyond
Anti-Semitism, racism, and the racial laws
Preparing for war, fighting a war
6. Mussolini as modernizer: A developmental dictatorship?
The Pontine Marshes: reclamation as a metaphor
Economic planning: protectionism, autarchy, and state holding companies
7. Mussolini: Myth and memory
Mussolini: the myth
Mussolini: the memory
Select bibliography
Index

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