Recasting the duce for the new century: Recent scholarship on Mussolini and Italian Fascism

Journal of Modern History

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 722-737

  Cardoza, Anthony L ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 33646688178     PISSN: 00222801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/497722     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. For a fuller examination of these battles over the image of Mussolini, see R. J. B. Bosworth, The Italian Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism (London, 1998).
2. A. J. P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War (London, 1964), 85;
3. Denis Mack Smith, Mussolini (New York, 1982), xiv.
4. See Bosworth, The Italian Dictatorship, 116-19.
5. Renzo De Felice, Mussolini, 4 vols. (Turin, 1965-97), vol. 1,
6. Mussolini il rivoluzionario, 1883-1920; vol. 2,
7. Mussolini il fascista, pt. 1,
8. La conquista del potere, 1921-1925, pt. 2,
9. L'organizzazione dello Stato fascista, 1925-1929; vol. 3,
10. Mussolini il duce, pt. 1,
11. Gli anni del consenso, 1929-1936, pt. 2,
12. Lo stato totalitario, 1936-1940; vol. 4,
13. Mussolini I'alleato, 19401945, pt. 1,
14. L'Italia in guerra, 1940-1943, bk. 1,
15. Dalla guerra "breve" alla guerra lunga, bk. 2,
16. Crisi e agonia del regime, pt. 2,
17. La guerra civile, 1943-1945.
18. De Felice, Mussolini il duce, 1:12.
19. De Felice, Mussolini il duce, Ibid., 1:462, 650, 667-68, 798-802.
20. De Felice, Mussolini il duce, Ibid., 2:806-7, 834.
21. See, e. g., MacGregor Knox, "The Fascist Regime, Its Foreign Policy, and Its Wars: An 'Anti-Fascist' Orthodoxy," Contemporary European History 4 (1995): 347-65;
22. Gianpasquale Santo-massimo, "Renzo De Felice e il fantasma di Mussolini," Passato e Presente 16 (1998): 121-40;
23. R. J. B. Bosworth and Patrizia Dogliani, eds., Italian Fascism: History, Memory, and Representation (London, 1999);
24. Bosworth, The Italian Dictatorship, 12-36;
25. Alexander Stille, "In Italy, a Kinder, Gentler Fascism," New York Times, September 28, 2002.
26. Berlusconi's published remarks appeared in the Italian daily La Voce di Rimini and the British magazine The Spectator, September 11, 2003.
27. Victoria De Grazia, The Culture of Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy (Cambridge, 1981).
28. Paul Corner, "Italian Fascism: Whatever Happened to Dictatorship?" Journal of Modern History 74 (2002): 325-51.
29. See also MacGregor Knox, Mussolini Unleashed: 1939-1941 (Cambridge, 1982).
30. In a similar vein, the Journal of Modern Italian Studies has devoted an entire issue to the subject of Italian fascist war crimes. See 9 (Fall 2004).
31. The Times Literary Supplement, April 4, 2003.
32. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945 (Berkeley, 2001);
33. Marla Stone, The Patron State: Culture and Politics in Fascist Italy (Princeton, NJ, 1998).