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Political Cultures in the Fascist Italy: Transversalities and Contradictions

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As the first totalitarian experience, the construction of the fascist regime in Italy was a long, complex process, which remained unfinished by its very nature. Hence, this text attempts to explore some of the specific features of that process. In line with the overall approach of this volume, the principal aim is here to understand the role of the various political cultures in constructing the regime, particularly the fascist and nationalist ones. In that sense, Saz concludes that both were important and there were collaboration and transversalities, mutual understanding, contradictions, struggles and cracks between them. But this always happened from and towards a fascist hegemony, with the nationalist as the second term of the binomial. Two lanes on a motorway where none of the two elements could be seen as less destructive of freedom than their fellow travelling companion.

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The author is a member of the research project titled Derechas y nación en la España contemporánea: culturas e identidades en conflicto (HAR2014–53042–P), financed by the General Secretariat for Research of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Innovation, and of the Grup de recerca d’excel·lència PROMETEU/2016/2018 research group of the Department for Education, Research, Culture and Sport of the Generalitat Valenciana.

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Saz, I. (2019). Political Cultures in the Fascist Italy: Transversalities and Contradictions. In: Saz, I., Box, Z., Morant, T., Sanz, J. (eds) Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Studies in Political History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22411-0_13

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