LEADER 04174cam a2200433 a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20221122133831.0 008 020604s2002 enkaf b 001 0beng c 010 2002283267 015 GBA2-Z8772 020 0340731443 040 UKM |cUKM |dDLC |dhubpceuo |beng 041 eng 042 pcc 043 e-it--- 050 00 DG575.M8 |bB67 2002 082 00 945.091/092 |221 100 1 Bosworth, R. J. B., |d1943- 245 10 Mussolini / |cR. J. B. Bosworth. 260 London : |bArnold ;New York : |bCo-published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, |c2002. 300 xv, 584 p., [16] p. of plates : |bill. ; |c24 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [520]-563) and index. 505 8 1. The Furies and Benito Mussolini, 1944-1945 -- 2. First of his class? The Mussolinis and the young Benito -- 1883-1902 -- 3. Emigrant and socialist, 1902-1910 -- 4. The class struggle, 1910-1914 -- 5. War and revolution, 1914-1919 -- 6. The first months of Fascism, 1919-1920 -- 7. The Fascist rise to power, 1920-1922 -- 8. Government, 1922-1924 -- 9. The imposition of dictatorship, 1924-1925 -- 10. The Man of Providence, 1926-1929 -- 11. Mussolini in his pomp, 1929-1932 -- 12. The challenge of Adolf Hitler, 1932-1934 -- 13. Empire in Ethiopia, 1935-1936 -- 14. Crisis in Europe, 1936-1938 -- 15. The approach of a Second World War, 1938-1939 -- 16. Germany's ignoble second, 1939-1941 -- 17. First fall and feeble resurrection, 1942-1943 -- 18. The ghost of Benito Mussolini, 1945-2001. 520 In 1945, disguised in German greatcoat and helmet, Mussolini attempted to escape from the advancing Allied armies. Unfortunately for him, the convoy of which he was part was stopped by partisans and his features, made so familiar by Fascist propaganda, gave him away. Within 24 hours he was executed by his captors, joining those he sent early to their graves as an outcome of his tyranny, at least one million people. He was one of the tyrant-killers who so scarred interwar Europe, but we cannot properly understand him or his regime by any simple equation with Hitler or Stalin. Like them, his life began modestly in the provinces; unlike them, he maintained a traditional male family life, including both wife and mistresses, and sought in his way to be an intellectual. He was cruel (though not the cruelest); his racism existed, but never without the consistency and vigor that would have made him a good recruit for the SS. He sought an empire; but, in the most part, his was of the old-fashioned, costly, nineteenth century variety, not a racial or ideological imperium. And, self-evidently Italian society was not German or Russian: the particular patterns of that society shaped his dictatorship. Bosworth's Mussolini allows us to come closer than ever before to an appreciation of the life and actions of the man and of the political world and society within which he operated. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, this biography paints a picture of brutality and failure, yet one tempered with an understanding of Mussolini as a human being, not so different from many of his contemporaries.-- from the cover 580 The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection 600 10 Mussolini, Benito, |d1883-1945. 650 0 Heads of state |zItaly |vBiography. 650 0 Fascism |zItaly |xHistory. 651 0 Italy |xPolitics and government |y1922-1945. 856 41 |3Table of contents only |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2002283267.html 856 42 |3Publisher description |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0637/2002283267-d.html 856 42 |3Contributor biographical information |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/2002283267-b.html 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6945_091000000000000_092_BOS |70 |8GEN |9160993OSA |bOSA |d2022-11-18 |eComFas |l0 |o945.091/092 BOS |r2022-11-18 |w2022-11-18 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 JXK8yaYG 992 01 945_091000000000000_092_BOS |bQVU_ZQYZZZZZZZZZZZZ_ZQX_OB7 966 |cIn the Research Room