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The Fascist Ruling Class. A Geography of Power between Centre and Periphery
2022
How did the fascist ruling class consolidate? From which parts of the country did the new notables of the regime come? What was their geographical, age and cultural background? The essay aims to answer these questions by analysing in particular the list of general secretaries of the National Fascist Party, the federal secretaries of the provinces and the prefects,
The shifting evocations of squadrismo: remembering the massacre of Palazzo d'Accursio in Fascist Bologna
2016
The massacre of Palazzo d’Accursio is considered one of the first events in the rise of the Fascist squads. This article analyzes the ways in which the event was described in Bologna during the twenty years that followed it. It is believed that in the first few years, commemorations that emphasized the role of the Fascist squads were not very common. Instead, they concentrated on the life of Giulio Giordani, a murdered lawyer and opposition councilor, who became a martyr. Members of the city’s ruling class, especially lawyers, developed their own rituals of commemoration, but the establishment of the regime led to the acquisition of the commemorations of Giordani by Fascism, reflecting the …