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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"Fascist"”.
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Art and politics in Fascist Italy : the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution (1932)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
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The Roots of Fascist Aesthetics in Antiquity
<p>This research is an attempt to ascertain whether, and if so how, Platonic philosophy, particularly the Republic and Laws , influenced the development of aestheticized politics in National Socialist Germany. This is contextualized within the theoretical framework of aesthetic politics, which …
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Popular Magazines in Fascist Italy, 1934 - 1943
… within the peculiar dynamics of a controlling Fascist regime and the mixed national and international forces that shaped it. Modern Italian magazines developed in dialogue with foreign industries, imitating models from abroad and adapting them to the Italian culture. The development of popular …
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“The Disintegration of the System”: The Nazi-Fascist Terrorism of Franco G. Freda Between Fascist Mysticism and Meta-politics During the Strategy of Tension (1969-1979)
… far-right activist Franco G. Freda and neofascist terrorism in Italy between 1960s and 1980s. Franco G. Freda is known as one of the alleged perpetrators of the neo-fascist terrorist attack on the Banco Nazionale dell’Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana in Milan on 12 December 1969. The attack …
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Thomas Carlyle, Fascism, and Frederick: From Victorian Prophet to Fascist Ideologue
… War, academics and propagandists dubbed him a fascist or Nazi in both defamation and approval. Fascist scholars pressed Carlyle into service as a progenitor and prophet of their respective totalitarian regimes. Adolf Hitler, in his final days, assuaged his fears of his imminent fall with …
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An Empire of Possibilities: Education in Fascist Italy’s African Colonies, 1922-1943
… is the first imperial history of education in fascist Italy’s African colonies (1922-1943). It integrates pedagogic discussions and school policies with lived experiences at school, addressing education as a window into colonial encounters in Eritrea, Somalia, Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, and …
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‘The Worship of Failure’: Cults of Personality in Three Failed Fascist Movements
… aims to study the common factors of three failed Fascist leaders and their embryonic personality cults. It will do so by examining the historical precedents to the 20th century personality cult, discussing the role of the leader in personality cults. It will consider as well how these cults …
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The story we tell our-selves: renegotiating Fascist Heritage in post-dictatorial Italy
… have been identified firstly by examining the Fascist regime’s uses of the past, as well as how they edited sites and narratives to serve as tools for propaganda. The research has also shown how modern art and architecture supported the regime’s primary need for building consensus, and it has …
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The fascist Jesus : Ernest Renan's Vie de Jesus and the theological origins of fascism.
… Jesus” contributed to the formation of Fascist political theology. It is a study of why and how the “Academic Jesus” of scientifically trained scholars became the “Fascist Jesus” of politicians like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. Through a detailed examination of Renan’s Vie and his …
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British far right and anti-fascist media's construction of identity: Searchlight and Spearhead, 1964 – 1982
… With Searchlight addressing the anti-fascist movement and Spearhead looking towards the British nationalist movements, both magazines sought to bring and hold together diverse readerships. Throughout their print runs the magazines transmitted their own notions of a new Britain, and …
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Fascismo al bivio: The Arditi del popolo and Civil War at the Advent of Fascist Power
… given to the largest organized, armed antifascist group, the Arditi del popolo (AdP). It argues that it was the AdP, not the Italian Communist Party (PCI), that preoccupied Prime Minister Ivanoe Bonomi and led the Socialists (PSI) to work with Benito Mussolini and other members of the Fasci …
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Allure and Ideology in the Poetry of Gabriele D'Annunzio: Rediscovering Italian Art Song in Pre-Fascist Italy (1900-1930)
<p>Italian music of the early 20th century was dominated by opera. However, many composers, including Gian Francesco Malipiero, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Renato Brogi, Francesco Paolo Tosti, Giacomo Orefice, Ottorino Respighi, Alfredo Casella, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Franco Casavola, and Salvatore …
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Addressing the people : Architecture as a medium of the fascist narrative of national identity, Case del Fascio, 1922-1943
This dissertation examines a building program for Fascist headquarters, or Case del Fascio, established by the Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF) during the years of Italian Fascism, from 1922 to 1943. The PNF planned over 11,000 buildings by 1943 on the Italian mainland and in their colonial …
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Anti-Fascist or Imperialist War? The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Outbreak of War in 1939.
… war but rather a war of resistance to fascist aggression; an idea based on theoretical concepts adhered to by the Party during the 1930s. The Central Committee felt that supporting the war would allow the Party to prevent German fascism being imposed on Britain through conquest and …
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Spectacle, Sacrifice and the State: The Legacy of European Fascism and the Revival of Martyrdom in the Modern World
… Twentieth Century with the rise of European Fascist movements. Both they, and the fascist-like movements of today, share a cluster of characteristics that allow for fruitful comparisons of the ways in which martyrdom spectacles are used to communicate with constituent populations, facilitate …
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Myth and respectability in Swedish and Dutch fascism, 1931-40
… of mythopoeia comparatively. A variety of fascist performances, scripted and unscripted, are considered as having mythopoeic potential, and understood as performative in character, i.e. constituting the thing they claimed to represent. Multiple parts of this mythopoeic process are analysed: …
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The British Union of Fascists in the Midlands, 1932 – 1940
… of Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in the Midlands between 1932 and 1940. It charts the fascist presence in four major cities: Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry and Leicester. The BUF is the largest and most important fascist movement to have ever existed in Britain. …
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The (Re)emergence of eco-fascism : white-nationalism, sacrifice, and proto-fascism in the circulation of digital rhetoric in the ecological far-right.
… outbursts by white nationalists espousing eco-fascist political beliefs indicates a troubling trend in environmental politics. Brenton Tarrant, the Christchurch shooter, and Patrick Crusius, the El Paso Shooter, explicitly utilized argumentative strategies taken from eco-fascist literature …
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