So I was rather excited to be asked to review the new Sky Atlantic TV series Mussolini: Son of the Century. The series ...

Essentially, Mussolini's system pitted Italian classes against foreign powers, whereas Mao's mobilized Chinese national classes against foreign powers. Mussolini himself was clear about it in his own ...

As a historian who has studied and taught courses on Italian fascism, I have spent many hours watching footage and listening to the speeches of dictator Benito Mussolini, who ruled over the ...

But years earlier, Mussolini’s regime was already passing anti-Semitic laws. Italian Fascism glorified the notion of a "pure Italian," evoking an ideal world where men were warriors and women ...

According to the historian, our less than critical view of Italian Fascism can be traced to a romanticised and condescending view of Italians going back to the eighteenth century. But he also argues ...

Therein precisely is the gist of fascism.... Italian fascism was the immediate outgrowth of the betrayal by the reformists of the uprising of the Italian proletariat. From the time the [first ...

As a historian who has studied and taught courses on Italian fascism, I have spent many hours watching footage and listening to the speeches of dictator Benito Mussolini, who ruled over the ...