LEADER 05006nam 2200709I 450 001 9910464586803321 005 20190122195148.0 010 $a1-138-17520-X 010 $a1-315-84561-X 010 $a1-317-89840-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000126772 035 $a(EBL)1710638 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001294797 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11717677 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001294797 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11336370 035 $a(PQKB)10797076 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1710638 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1710638 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10884246 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL618328 035 $a(OCoLC)881417433 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781315845616 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000126772 100 $a20190122h20142005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||| ||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMussolini /$fby Martin Clark 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aBoca Raton, FL :$cRoutledge,$d[2014]. 210 4$dİ2005. 215 $a1 online resource (372 p.) 225 1 $aProfiles In Power 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-306-87077-1 311 $a0-582-06595-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Glossary and Abbreviations; Introduction Mussolini: Personality and Power; 1 Early Years and the Great War 1883-1918; The Rise to Fame; The Duce of Socialism; A Voice Prophesying War; A Good War; 2 Manoeuvres to Power 1918-22; Peace and Adversity; Vigilantes and Violence; A Man of Peace; The March on Rome; 3 Precarious Tenure 1922-4; The Honeymoon Period; Creating a Majority; The Matteotti Crisis; 4 Making the Fascist State 1925-9; The Uses of Assassination; Taming the Fascists; Innovation at Last 327 $aThe Great 'Reconciliation'Conclusion; 5 Targets and 'Battles' 1925-35; 'The Battle for the Lira'; 'The Battle Against the Mafia'; 'The Battle for Wheat'; 'The Battle for Births'; Marching in Rome; Summary; 6 At the Height of his Power? The Regime and the Duce 1929-35; Family and Personality; Government and Colleagues; Party Matters; Coping with Depression; Workers' Playtime; The Ideological Front: Myths and Image; Conclusion: Consensus or Repression?; 7 The Duce Abroad: Propaganda, Peacemaking and War 1922-36; From Lausanne to Locarno 1922-5; From Locarno to Rome 1926-35 327 $aFrom Rome to Addis Ababa, via Stresa 1935-6The Triumph of the Duce?; 8 Electing a New People 1936-40; The Duce's Cultural Revolution; Economic Problems; Race and Religion; The Ciano Cabinet; A Warrior Race?; 9 The Approach of War 1936-40; The Spanish Civil War and the Axis; 1938: The Anschluss and Easter; From Munich to the Pact of Steel 1938-9; Keeping Out of War: Summer 1939; Joining After All: Spring 1940; Conclusion; 10 The Duce at War 1940-3; Italy's Campaigns; The Duce as War Leader; Arms and the Man; Morale and the Home Front; Decline and Fall of a Roman Empire 327 $a11 The Years of Captivity 1943-5From Ponza to the Gran Sasso; A Republic at Salo?; The Trial of Verona; Disillusion and Disorder; The Last Months at Salo? 1944-5; From Milan to Dongo, and Back; Conclusion: Debates Among Historians; Chronology; Index 330 3 $aBenito Mussolini was a brilliant Socialist journalist who in 1914 declared war, put himself at the head if the anti-Socialist movement in Italy, manoeuvred himself into power by 1933 and ruled the country until overthrown in 1943. He was a dynamic but insecure personality, who appeared dictatorial but always had to share power with the military and bureaucratic establishment. Mussolini founded an Empire in Africa and tried to 'make Italians' in his own heroic, war like image, but in fact failed to even control his own family! In June 1940, when France fell, he could not resist joining in the Second World War on the German side, although Italy was not equipped for serious fighting. His rule ended in Military disaster and personal humiliation.This new biography focuses both on Mussolini's personality and on the way he exercised power, and regards these two issues as closely linked. It sees him as a man with all the talents needed to attain power but few of those needed to exercise it well. This book primarily focuses on how Mussolini had absolutely the wrong personality for a successful political leader. 410 0$aProfiles in power (London, England) 606 $aFascists$zItaly$vBiography 606 $aHeads of state$zItaly$vBiography 606 $aFascism$zItaly$xHistory 607 $aItaly$xHistory$y1914-1945 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFascists 615 0$aHeads of state 615 0$aFascism$xHistory. 676 $a945.091092 700 $aClark$b Martin$0260661 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464586803321 996 $aMussolini$92138236 997 $aUNINA