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By Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Ruth Ben-Ghiat's cutting edge cultural heritage of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative dialogue of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a huge diversity of fabrics, this paintings argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a brand new version of modernity that will unravel the modern ecu predicament in addition to long-standing difficulties of the nationwide prior. Ben-Ghiat indicates that—at a time of fears over the erosion of nationwide and social identities—Mussolini awarded fascism as a flow that might enable financial improvement with no damage to social barriers and nationwide traditions. She demonstrates that even though the regime mostly failed in its makes an attempt to remake Italians as paragons of a notably fascist version of mass society, two decades of fascism did adjust the panorama of Italian cultural existence. between more youthful intellectuals particularly, the dictatorship left a legacy of practices and attitudes that regularly persisted below diversified political rubrics after 1945.

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