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Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany : comparisons and contrasts / edited by Richard Bessel.

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

xiv, 242 pages ; 24 cm

This collaborative volume meets the challenge of comparing Nazi Germany to Fascist Italy. It contains 10 essays on the subjects of the movements, relation of regime to workers, women, and war and how regimes may be viewed.

Fascism -- Italy -- History.

National socialism.

Italy -- Politics and government -- 1922-1945.

Italy -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.

Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933.

Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.

Germany -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.

Bessel, Richard.

Based on the conference Fascism in Comparative Perspective, organised in March 1993, held at St. Peter's College, Oxford.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-231) and index.

Based on the conference Fascism in Comparative Perspective, organised in March 1993, held at St. Peter's College, Oxford.

Introduction. Italy, Germany and fascism / Richard Bessel -- The "crisis of bourgeois society" and the origins of fascism / Adrian Lyttelton -- The crisis of bourgeois society in interwar Germany / Bernd Weisbrod -- Italian workers and Italian fascism / Tobias Abse -- Whatever was the attitude of German workers? Reflections on recent interpretations / Tilla Siegel -- Women in fascist Italy / Perry R. Willson -- "The value of marriage for the Volksgemeinschaft" : policies towards women and marriage under National Socialism / Gabriele Czarnowski -- Expansionist zeal, fighting power, and staying power in the Italian and German dictatorships / MacGregor Knox -- Restorative elites, German society and the Nazi pursuit of war / Michael Geyer -- From fascism to "post-fascists" : Italian roads to modernity / Carl Levy -- National Socialism and modernisation / Mark Roseman.

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