To the Threshold of Power, 1922/33: Origins

To the Threshold of Power is the first volume of a two-part work that seeks to explain the origins and dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships. It lays a foundation for understanding the Nazi and Fascist regimes through parallel investigations of Italian and German society, institutions, and national myths; the supreme test of the First World War; and the post-1918 struggles from which the Fascist and National Socialist movements emerged. It emphasizes two principal sources of movement: the nationalist mythology of the intellectuals and the institutional culture and agendas of the two armies, especially the Imperial German Army and its Reichswehr successor. The book's climax is the cataclysm of 1914-18 and the rise and triumph of militarily organized radical nationalist movements - Mussolini's Fasci di combattimento and Hitler's National Socialist German Workers' Party - dedicated to the perpetuation of the war and the overthrow of the post-1918 world order.

List of Figures and Maps	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: Dictatorship in the Age of Mass Politics	p. 1
The Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
Latecomers	p. 19
Peculiarities of the Old Order	p. 19
Revolutions from Above, 1789-1871: Politics, Society, Myths	p. 32
Italy and Germany as Nation-States, 1871-1914	p. 58
Economic Expansion, Social Ambition	p. 58
The Politics of Stunted Parliamentarism	p. 78
The Instruments of War	p. 100
The National Myths	p. 109
Fateful Peculiarities: The View from 1914	p. 131
From War to Dictatorship, 1914-1933
The Synthesis of Violence and Politics, 1914-1918	p. 143
The Meaning of the War: The Inner Circle from Euphoria to Resentment	p. 146
The Meaning of the War: "August Days" and "Radiant May"	p. 169
The Meaning of the War: Fragmentation, Defeat, Denial, Wrath	p. 182
Structural Transformations and the End of All Legitimacy	p. 223
Kampfzeit: The Road to Radical Nationalist Victory, 1918-1933	p. 232
Postwar Italy and Weimar Germany: Structures and Forces	p. 233
The Perpetuation of the War: Ideas and Institutions	p. 281
"Without Armistice or Quarter": Fascism and National Socialism	p. 300
To Rome and Berlin, 1921-1922/1930-1933	p. 361
Out of the National Pasts...	p. 389
Conclusion: Into the Radical National Future: Inheritances and Prospects of the New Regimes	p. 399
Frequently Cited Works	p. 407
Index	p. 421
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To the Threshold of Power, 1922/33: Origins and Dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist Dictatorships

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