Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator''s fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries.Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a totalitarian dictator; Hitler and Stalin have always cast too long a shadow. But what was a negative judgement on the Duce, considered innocuous and ineffective, has begun to work to his advantage. As has occurred with many other European dictators, present-day popular memory of Mussolini is increasingly indulgent; in Italy and elsewhere he is remembered as a strong, decisive leader and people now speak of the ''many good things'' done by the regime.After all, it is said, Mussolini was not like ''the others''. Mussolini in Myth and Memory argues against this rehabilitation, documenting the inefficiencies, corruption, and violence of a highly repressive regime and exploding the myths of Fascist good government. But this short study does not l
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