Response to Matteo Millan: Mapping Squadrist Violence

Matteo Millan's article is part of an important wave of scholarship that investigates the central role that violence played in Fascist governance throughout the long two decades of Benito Mussolini's rule. Whether at the level of street beatings, worker exploitation (including the use of f...

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Published in:Contemporary European history 2013-11, Vol.22 (4), p.579-583
Main Author: BEN-GHIAT, RUTH
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bureaucracy
Decades
Dictators
European history
Fascism
International
Militia groups
Paramilitary Violence in Italian Fascism: A Discussion
Politics
Studies
Totalitarianism
Violence
World War I
World War II
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Summary:Matteo Millan's article is part of an important wave of scholarship that investigates the central role that violence played in Fascist governance throughout the long two decades of Benito Mussolini's rule. Whether at the level of street beatings, worker exploitation (including the use of forced labour) or abuses and mass death in a large network of Fascist concentration camps and confinement spaces (prisons, mental hospitals, penal colonies) that extended to Africa and the Balkans, it is only in the last decade that Italian Fascist violence has been taken seriously. I use this phrase with intent, to highlight the enduring impact of older historiographies that fostered a grave underestimation of Italian Fascist violence and minimised Italians' agency and responsibility for such violence.
ISSN:0960-7773
1469-2171
DOI:10.1017/S0960777313000362