Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy

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ID19935574
AuthorsMichael R Ebner (Syracuse University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Publication date2010-12-31
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueOrdinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511778728
OpenAlexW1512533428
ISBN9780511778728
Open LibraryOL29022779M
LanguageEN
Citations received17

Between 1926 and 1943, the Fascist regime arrested thousands of Italians and deported them to island internment colonies and small villages in southern Italy. Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy analyses this system of political confinement and, more broadly, its effects on Italian society, revealing the centrality of political violence to Fascist rule. In doing so, the book shatters the widely accepted view that the Mussolini regime ruled without a system of mass repression. The Fascist state ruled Italy violently, projecting its coercive power deeply and diffusely into society through confinement, imprisonment, low-level physical assaults, economic deprivations, intimidation, discrimination and other quotidian forms of coercion. Moreover, by promoting denunciatory practices, the regime cemented the loyalties of 'upstanding' citizens while suppressing opponents, dissenters and social outsiders. Fascist repression was thus more intense and ideological than previously thought and even shared some important similarities with Nazi and Soviet terror

Coercion (linguistics) · Criminology · Ideology · Imprisonment · Intimidation · Political repression · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · benito Mussolini (1883-1945) · Deportation · Fascism · History · Italy · Political persecution · Political violence · politics and government · Social conditions · State-sponsored terrorism

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