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This book aims to retrace the main features of the twenty-year history of the Italian fascist regime and examine its impact on Italian society. After an introductory chapter on the origins of Italian fascism and the march on Rome, the volume deals with the following topics. A) the establishment and consolidation of Mussolini's dictatorship in the 1920s. B) the further evolution in the 1930s of an authoritarian regime vocated to totalitarianism. C) the nature, the limits, the decline of the Italians' consent to Mussolini's regime. D) the myth of the «new man» and the plans for an integral fascistization especially of youth. E) the relations between Mussolini and the Holy See. F) the evolution of Mussolini's foreign policy up until the Italo-Ethiopian conflict and the Italian military intervention in the Spanish civil war. G) the Axis with Hitler and Mussolini's racial and anti-Semitic policies. H) Italy' intervention in World War Two, its military defeats and the collapse of the regime certified by the Grand Council at its last meeting on July 24th-25th, 1943.

Defence date: 24 October 1984 ; Examining board: Prof. Renzo de Felice, relatore (Università di Roma) ; Prof. Claude Fohlen (Istituto Universitario Europeo) ; Prof. Stuart J. Woolf (Istituto Universitario Europeo) ; Prof. Adrian Lyttelton (Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center) ; Prof. Emilio Gentile (Università di Camerino) ; First made available online: 8 July 2015

The volumes on the Great War that are here published are the result of a series of seminars held at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Florence between 2014 and 2015. Starting from the occasion of the centennial, the authors wanted to take stock of some specific aspects of the studies related to the First World War. To this purpose, historians, military analysts, political scientists and sociologists have questioned the meaning of the fracture that marks the beginning of the twentieth century and, consequently, the basic aspects of the new policy of the "short century", from both an Italian and European perspective.