MussoliniS Policemen: Behaviour, Ideology and Institutional Culture in Representation and Practice

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Examines Italy's police in the context of fascism's efforts to modernise and establish ideological control over the state. Presenting an inside perspective on fascist repression, it focuses on recruitment, training and professionalism in the Interior Ministry Police, and their ideological orientation, working conditions and quality of life. -- .

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It should be widely read not only by those interested in the ventennio but also those interested in authoritarianism more broadly. -- .

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Jonathan Dunnage is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History at Swansea University