Making the Fascist Self: Privatizing the Russian Economy

by Mabel Berezin

Book Overview

In her examination of the culture of Italian fascism, Mabel Berezin focuses on how Mussolini's regime consciously constructed a nonliberal public sphere to support its political aims. Fascism stresses form over content, she believes, and the regime tried to build its political support through the careful construction and manipulation of public spectacles or rituals such as parades, commemoration ceremonies, and holiday festivities.

The fascists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801484200
• ISBN13: 9780801484209
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"