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Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Democracy is difficult, flawed and unstable. It involves barely distinguishable political parties taking part in lengthy, overcomplicated and expensive decision-making processes. Trying to engage so many people with political issues seems to lead only to complexity and disagreement. So why bother? Doesn't fascism guarantee a more effective and efficient management of the state? In this short, bitingly ironic mixture of On Tyranny and The Psychopath...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"Fascism and populism are at the center of political discussions today. Although they are often conflated, they represent alternative global trajectories. This book represents a historian's inquiry into how and why fascism became linked with populism in history. Stressing the significant differences between populism as form of democracy and fascism as a form of dictatorship, From Fascism to Populism in History rethinks the conceptual and historical...
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Since the election of Donald Trump, politicians, historians, intellectuals, and media pundits have been faced with a startling and urgent question: Are we threatened by fascism? Some see striking connections between our current moment and the tumultuous interwar period in Europe. But others question if these connections really reflect our current political moment or if they are another example of Eurocentrism and American provincialism speaking over...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity-cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits-as a means to regain solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors, they've had devastating effects on social and economic welfare in countries all over the world. Today, as austerity remains a favored policy among troubled states, an important question remains:...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An incisive theoretical manifesto arguing that feminism is the only route to an antifascist global future. In this exciting, innovative work, Polish feminist philosopher Ewa Majewska maps the creation of feminist counterpublics around the world--spaces of protest and ideas, community and common struggle, that can challenge the emergence of fascist states as well as Western democratic "public spheres" populated by atomized, individual subjects. Drawing...
8) Red milk
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"By the acclaimed writer Sjón, a timely and provocative novel about a mysterious Icelandic neo-Nazi and the enduring global allure of fascism"--
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"1928. Riffling through a cupboard, Matilda Simpkin comes across a small wooden club--an old possession that she hasn't seen for more than a decade. Immediately, memories come flooding back to Mattie--memories of a thrilling past, which only further serve to remind her of her chafingly uneventful present. During the Women's Suffrage Campaign, she was a militant who was jailed five times and never missed an opportunity to return to the fray. Now in...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Today Mussolini is remembered as a hated dictator who, along with Hitler and Stalin, ushered in an era of totalitarian repression unsurpassed in human history. But how was he viewed by ordinary Italians during his lifetime? In Fascist Voices, Christopher Duggan draws on thousands of letters sent to Mussolini, as well as private diaries and other primary documents, to show how Italian citizens lived and experienced the fascist regime under Mussolini...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on almost three decades of research on the histories of fascism and populism around the world, The Wannabe Fascists lays out in clear language what the author calls the 'four pillars of fascism'--xenophobia, propaganda, political violence, and ultimately dictatorship. Federico Finchelstein carefully explains how and why wannabe fascists like Trump, Bolsonaro, and Modi embrace the first three pillars but don't quite succeed in dictatorship...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Fascism comes to life as a mood, not a platform; it slips in through the cracks of a culture on the level of art and language itself, too often undetected. The deluge of images across all our various screens never stops-one second you're looking at a photograph of Syrian children suffering in the wake of a chemical attack, the next you're feeling bad about yourself because of someone else's pristine Instagram selfie. And before you can process or...
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Language
English
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"Set against the backdrop of fascist Rome, Her Side of the Story is a richly told novel about a woman driven to murder the man she loves"--
As she looks back on her life, Alessandra Corteggiani recalls her youth during the rise of fascism in Italy, the resistance, and the fall of Mussolini, the lives of the women in her family and her working-class neighborhood, rigorously committed to telling "her side of the story." Alessandra witnesses her mother,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice's life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep. Memories of that night torment Alice, but when Ila asks her to return to the House, to go past the KEEP OUT sign and over the sick earth where teenagers dare each other to venture, Alice knows...
16) Love and anarchy
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
An epic tragicomedy from director Lina Wertmuller (Seven beauties), Love and anarchy plumbs the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple farm boy sent to kill Mussolini. Giancarlo Giannini (The seduction of Mimi) won the best acting prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his achingly sensitive portrayal of Tunin, a freckle-faced innocent who became an accidental anarchist. His contact in Rome is Salomè (Mariangela Melato), a prostitute...
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini is a story about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935. Luca is a boy living in Florence whose family situation is precarious at best; his mother has run off and his father has little time for him. Fortunately, he's a welcome guest with Mary, a English woman visiting Italy to soak up European culture. Mary and her friends...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the international bestseller Travelers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. Drawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love; courage and weakness; action, apathy and grief; hope, pain, joy, and despair. Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of life -- foresters, priests, farmers and nuns; innkeepers,...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Italia
Pub. Date
©1999.
Language
English
Description
"Since childhood [Marcello] Clerici has struggled with conflicting urges--a compulsion to hurt others and an obsessive desire to conform. ... When he is assigned to kill a former professor, now in exile, and falls unexpectedly in love with a strange, compelling woman, his life is torn open."--Cover.
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