Italian fascism, 1919-1945 Book

	Acknowledgement
	List of Abbreviations
	Map of Modern Italy
Pt. 1	The Conquest of Power, 1919-29	1
1	The Postwar Crisis and the Rise of Fascism, 1919-22	3
	Politics and society in post-unification Italy	3
	The war in Italy	6
	'1919-ism' and early Fascism	13
	The 1919 elections	16
	The biennio rosso and Fiume	21
	The Fascist reaction	34
	Giolitti and Fascism	40
	The transition from movement to party	43
	The March on Rome	52
2	Between 'Normalisation' and 'Revolution', 1922-5	60
	The various Fascisms	60
	Dictatorship by stealth	64
	The conquest of the South and the 1924 election	71
	The Matteotti crisis	75
3	The Construction of the 'Totalitarian' State, 1925-9	79
	'Totalitarianism'	79
	The party and the state	81
	Syndicates and corporations	88
	The Fascist constitution	92
	The conciliation with the Catholic Church	95
	The revaluation of the lira	97
	'Ruralism'	101
Pt. II	The Fascist Regime, 1929-36	105
4	The Years of the Great Depression, 1929-34	107
	The party and the inquadramento of the nation	107
	The organisation of the young, welfare and free time	109
	The impact and limitations of 'totalitarian' control	116
	Corporativism and the Great Depression	124
5	The Creation of the Fascist Empire, 1935-6	131
	Imperialism, revisionism and the limits to Fascist foreign policy in the 1920s	131
	The 'totalitarian' state: internal policy as foreign policy and vice versa	136
	The Depression and Fascism's opportunity	138
	The invasion and conquest of Ethiopia	140
Pt. III	Fascist Expansionism at Home and Abroad, 1936-43	145
6	The Axis Connection and the 'Fascistisation' of Italian Society, 1936-40	147
	The Axis with Germany	147
	Forcing the pace of 'fascistisation'	155
	Autarky and economic preparation for war	165
	'Non-belligerency' and war, 1939-40	169
7	Fascist Italy at War, 1940-3	173
	The collapse of Italy's parallel war	173
	The impact of war and the internal crisis of the regime	176
	The fall of Mussolini	180
	Epilogue: The Italian Social Republic, 1943-5	183
	Notes	189
	Select Bibliography	193
	Index	200