Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 320
Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-0-7425-3122-2 • Hardback • January 2004 • $154.00 • (£119.00)
978-0-7425-7971-2 • eBook • January 2004 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Stanislao G. Pugliese is associate professor of modern European history at Hofstra University. He is the author of Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile and Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti From the Nazi Prison in Rome, 1943-1944.
Chapter 1 Chronology
Chapter 2 Map: Italy since 1919
Chapter 3 Introduction: The Past That Will Not Pass: Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy
Chapter 4 The Roots of Fascism
Chapter 5 Futurist Manifesto
Chapter 6 An Excerpt from Four and Twenty Minds
Chapter 7 The Vigil
Chapter 8 The Legacy of Nationalism
Chapter 9 The Birth of Fascism and the Early Opposition
Chapter 10 Afternoon Speech of 23 March 1919
Chapter 11 Squadrismo
Chapter 12 The March on Rome
Chapter 13 We Are of the People
Chapter 14 Our Protestantism
Chapter 15 The Consolidation of Power and the Anti-Fascist Response
Chapter 16 The Fascisti Exposed
Chapter 17 Speech of 3 January 1925
Chapter 18 The Eternal Tendency toward Fascism
Chapter 19 Towards Anarchism
Chapter 20 The Fascist State and Dissident Voices
Chapter 21 The Doctrine of Fascism
Chapter 22 What Are We to Do?
Chapter 23 Letters from Women
Chapter 24 Aphorisms
Chapter 25 Operations against Individuals
Chapter 26 We Have No Need
Chapter 27 The Story of My Death
Chapter 28 The Basic Features of the Fascist Dictatorship
Chapter 29 Fascist and Anti-Fascist Culture
Chapter 30 Fascist Anthems
Chapter 31 Mussolini the Man
Chapter 32 The Sacred Myths of Fascism
Chapter 33 The Fascist Decalogue
Chapter 34 Intellectuals and the Regime
Chapter 35 History as the Story of Liberty
Chapter 36 The Political Prisoner
Chapter 37 What Is Man?
Chapter 38 The Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution
Chapter 39 Grace
Chapter 40 The Nationalization of Women
Chapter 41 Fascist Racism, Anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust
Chapter 42 Facetta Nera: Little Black Face
Chapter 43 Racial Manifesto
Chapter 44 The Word Jew
Chapter 45 Hunting Down the Jews
Chapter 46 Consider If This Is a Man
Chapter 47 A Woman Confronts the Holocaust
Chapter 48 War: Spain, Europe, Civil
Chapter 49 Today in Spain, Tomorrow in Italy
Chapter 50 40 November 1943
Chapter 51 The Dead God
Chapter 52 Prisoner of War
Chapter 53 Anti-fascist Anthems
Chapter 54 Threats Are Good for You
Chapter 55 The Four Days of Naples
Chapter 56 Civil War
Chapter 57 The Death Throes of Fascism
Chapter 58 A Nation Collapses
Chapter 59 Manifesto of Verona
Chapter 60 A Letter before Dying
Chapter 61 Graffiti from a Nazi Prison
Chapter 62 Final Examination
Chapter 63 A Nazi Massacre
Chapter 64 History, Memory, and the Writing of the Past
Chapter 65 Partisan Diary
Chapter 66 The Resistance Vulgate
Chapter 67 The Legacy of Fascism
Chapter 68 Eternal Fascism
Chapter 69 The Battle over the Past
Chapter 70 My Seven Sons
Chapter 71 Memory and Massacres
Chapter 72 Guide to Further Reading
Chapter 73 Glossary
Stanislao Pugliese has done an admirable job in putting together a series of texts that will offer students of Italian culture an overview of some of the most crucial years of the nation's history.
— David Ward
In one volume readers will find illuminating texts from Italian Fascism and Italian Anti-Fascism, as well as some of the most important historical research on both movements. A valuable resource for scholars and students alike.
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Professor Pugliese's extremely useful anthology offers the reader a wide range of documents and recent interpretations of fascism and its opponents. What makes the collection especially valuable is the inclusion of many previously untranslated documents.Pugliese's approach brings together the fascists and their opponents in an ongoing critical dialogue. The reader will take from this anthology both an overview of Italian fascism as an historical phenomenon and a sense of how the issues were viewed by those who lived through the Fascist dictatorship...
— Alexander De Grand, North Carolina State University