Università Roma Tre

THE ADVENT OF FASCISM IN ITALY
The course aims to examine the advent of fascism in Italy. Attention will be paid to the complexity of the European situation at the end of the First World War in which the Italian affair is to be placed. In this context, the phenomenon of the explosion of violence in Europe at the end of the Great War will be considered. The post-war crisis in Italy will be reviewed referring to the multiplicity of factors that characterized it from the economic and social to institutional, political and international ones. The role of nationalism in the country's political crisis will be particularly explored. The birth and affirmation of fascism as a movement and a political party, the characteristics of its policy and its organizational model, the use of violence, the subversive strategy of the Liberal State will be carefully analyzed. Finally, appropriate attention will be paid to the process of the conquest of power by the fascist national party until the establishment of the regime.

1. Robert Gerwarth, La rabbia dei vinti. La guerra dopo la guerra 1917-1923, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2017
2. Giorgio Candeloro, Storia dell’Italia moderna, vol. VIII, La prima guerra mondiale, il dopoguerra, l’avvento del fascismo 1914-1922, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2016, from chapter 2, paragraph 6 “La guerra difensiva. Il dibattito sulla questione adriatica. La vittoria”, until the end of the book
3. Emilio Gentile, E fu subito regime. Il fascismo e la marcia su Roma, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014
4. Eugenia Tognotti, La “Spagnola” in Italia. Storia dell’influenza che fece temere la fine del mondo 1918-1919, seconda edizione, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2016