To the Threshold of Power, 1922/33: Origins and Dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist Dictatorships

ISBN-13: 9780521878609 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 466 str.

MacGregor Knox

Opis

To the Threshold of Power is the first volume of a two-part work that seeks to explain the origins and dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships. It lays a foundation for understanding the Nazi and Fascist regimes from their respective seizures of power in 1922 and 1933 to global war, genocide, and common ruin through parallel investigations of Italian and German society, institutions, and national myths; the supreme test of the First World War; and the post-1918 struggles from which the Fascist and National Socialist movements emerged. It emphasizes two principal sources of movement: the nationalist mythology of the intellectuals and the institutional culture and agendas of the two armies, especially the Imperial German Army and its Reichswehr successor. The book s climax is the cataclysm of 1914 18 and the rise and triumph of militarily organized radical nationalist movements Mussolini s Fasci di combattimento and Hitler s National Socialist German Workers Party dedicated to the perpetuation of the war and the overthrow of the post-1918 world order."

Recenzje

'Whoever looks for a reliable and detailed narrative account of Italy's and Germany's history from the nineteenth century 'to the threshold of power' in 1922 and 1933 is well served by this book.' Journal of Central European History

Spis treści

Introduction: dictatorship in the age of mass politics; Part I. The Long Nineteenth Century, 1789–1914: 1. Latecomers; 2. Italy and Germany as nation-states, 1871–1914; Part II. From War to Dictatorship, 1914–1933: 3. The synthesis of violence and politics, 1914–1918; 4. Kampfzeit: the road to radical nationalist victory, 1919–1933; Conclusion: into the radical national future: inheritances and prospects of the new regimes.