Abstract
Who was fascist leader in Italy? Dogliani offers an analysis of the fascist ruling class during the Ventennio, based on cultural, political and geographical origins and generations. The chapter draws attention to the first two generations of people, the ones born mainly in the 1880s like Mussolini, and those formed by the experience of the Great War, both becoming the new Italian elite. Dogliani shows that Fascism was a young movement made by young people coming from lower middle and popular classes, with a convincing and successful project to replace the old liberal ruling class. They seized the power and they kept it with a subversive violence, creating an apparently solid new political class of civil servants and PNF leaders. Dogliani concludes that they were at the end weakened by ambiguities and controversial choices and by a third generation of young fascists, grown up during the Fascism, cultivating new perspectives and expectations.
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Dogliani, P. (2019). Fascism and Fascists in Italy. In: Saz, I., Box, Z., Morant, T., Sanz, J. (eds) Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Studies in Political History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22411-0_7
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