Автор:Roberto Olla Год: 2011 Издание:Alma Books Страниц: 510 ISBN: 9781846881831 The figure of Benito Mussolini looms large as one of the most influential during the first half of the 20th century. Most have tried to erase the memory and the actions of the once powerful dictator, while others have made an attempt to reassess his life and works, despite the indelible legacy of death, violence, and destruction he left behind. But who is the real Benito Mussolini? Now that more than 60 years of scholarship and an abundance of first-hand documents by his closest relations and his many lovers are available to the researcher, the elusive, contradictory, and often misunderstood traits of his character are beginning to take shape into a more meaningful and better defined portrait of the man, the politician, and the leader. This book charts the main events in Mussolini's private and public life, from his humble beginnings in Romagna as the son of a blacksmith to his years as the director of a leading Socialist newspaper and his irresistible rise to power, with a particular...
