The Blackshirts' Dictatorship: Armed Squads, Political Violence, and the Consolidation of Mussolini's Regime Millan Matteo
The Blackshirts' Dictatorship: Armed Squads, Political Violence, and the Consolidation of Mussolini's Regime Millan Matteo On October 1922 Mussolini became head of the Italian government, a situation…
Specifikacia The Blackshirts' Dictatorship: Armed Squads, Political Violence, and the Consolidation of Mussolini's Regime Millan Matteo
The Blackshirts' Dictatorship: Armed Squads, Political Violence, and the Consolidation of Mussolini's Regime Millan Matteo
On October 1922 Mussolini became head of the Italian government, a situation that would last for twenty years. Violence however did not end. That power was obtained was largely due to the widespread violence perpetrated by blackshirts throughout Italy (squadristi).
Contrary to the claims of many scholars that have depicted blackshirts after the March on Rome only as troublemakers for Mussolini, the book shows that they played a crucial role in establishing a full and totalitarian dictatorship. Old and new blackshirts played a major role in making Italy a fascist country. Squadristi carried out processes of fascistisation, crushed opponents and convinced bystanders and dubious people, consolidating fascist power in many aspects of social, political and even intimate life.
By resorting to new archives, a long chronology and a focus on individual perspectives, this book