While the historical significance of fascism and anti-fascism is still being hotly debated in Europe and around the world, this anthology offers a new look at the many faces of repression and resistance. Stanislao G. Pugliese brings together a wide range of voices that illuminate more than eighty years of fascism and anti-fascism in Italy. Many of the pieces, including letters from women to Mussolini and anti-fascist graffiti from a Nazi prison in Rome, are available in English for the first time. The selections include historical documents, political analysis, stories, songs, and memoirs from a variety of perspectives. Taken together, the documents provide a compelling account of the political, historical, economic, and social impact of fascism and the resistance. Touching on fields as far ranging as political science, history, women's studies, and religion, Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy is immediate, human, and eminently readable.
Author(s): Stanislao G. Pugliese
Edition: 1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 320
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction - A Past That Will Not Pass: Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy
I - THE ROOTS OF FASCISM
1 - The Futurist Manifesto
MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM
2 - An Excerpt from Four and Twenty Minds
3 - The Vigil
4 - The Legacy of Nationalism
II - THE BIRTH OF FASCISM AND THE EARLY OPPOSITION
5 - Afternoon Speech of 23 March 1919
6 - Squadrismo
7 - The March on Rome
8 - We Are of the People
NUMBERS
MILITARY STRUCTURE
SYMBOLS
THE PARTICIPANTS
HISTORY
9 - Our Protestantism
III - THE CONSOLIDATION OF POWER AND THE ANTI-FASCIST RESPONSE
10 - The Fascisti Exposed
THE CHRONICLE OF DEEDS.
11 - Speech of 3 January 1925
12 - The Eternal Tendency toward Fascism
13 - Towards Anarchism
IV - THE FASCIST STATE AND DISSIDENT VOICES
14 - The Doctrine of Fascism
FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL DOCTRINE
15 - What Are We to Do?
16 - Letters from Women
17 - Aphorisms
18 - Operations against Individuals
19 - We Have No Need
20 - The Story of My Death
21 - The Basic Features of the Fascist Dictatorship
V - FASCIST AND ANTI-FASCIST CULTURE
22 - Fascist Anthems
23 - Mussolini the Man
24 - The Sacred Myths of Fascism
THE MYTH AND THE CULT
25 - The Fascist Decalogue
FIRST VERSION (1934)
SECOND VERSION (1938)
26 - Intellectuals and the Regime
MANIFESTO OF FASCIST INTELLECTUALS (1925)
27 - History as the Story of Liberty
28 - The Political Prisoner
29 - What Is Man?
30 - The Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution
31 - Grace
32 - The Nationalization of Women
VI - FASCIST RACISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND THE HOLOCAUST
33 - Facetta Nera: Little Black Face
34 - Racial Manifesto
THE MANIFESTO OF RACIAL SCIENTISTS
35 - The Word “Jew”
36 - Hunting Down the Jews
37 - Consider If This Is a Man
THE CANTO OF ULYSSES
38 - A Woman Confronts the Holocaust
VII - WAR: SPAIN, EUROPE, CIVIL
39 - Today in Spain, Tomorrow in Italy
40 - November 1943
41 - The Dead God
42 - Prisoner of War
43 - Anti-Fascist Anthems
44 - Threats Are Good for You
45 - The Four Days of Naples
46 - Civil War
VIII - THE DEATH THROES OF FASCISM
47 - A Nation Collapses
48 - Manifesto of Verona
MANIFESTO OF VERONA
49 - A Letter before Dying
50 - Graffiti from a Nazi Prison
51 - Final Examination
52 - A Nazi Massacre
IX - HISTORY, MEMORY, AND THE WRITING OF THE PAST
53 - Partisan Diary
54 - The Resistance “Vulgate”
55 - The Legacy of Fascism
56 - Eternal Fascism
57 - The Battle over the Past
58 - My Seven Sons
THE DEATH OF MY SONS AND THEIR MOTHER
59 - Memory and Massacres
Guide to Further Reading
Glossary
Index
About the Editor
