Lancaster Pamphlets Series

In Mussolini and Fascist Italy Martin Blinkhorn explains the significance of the man, the movement and the regime which dominated Italian life between 1922 and the closing stages of the Second World War. He examines:

those aspects of post-Risorgimento Italy which provided the longterm context vital to an understanding of Fascism
the social and political convulsions wrought by economic change after 1890 and by Italy’s intervention in the First World War
the Fascist movement's rapid rise from obscurity to power and the subsequent establishment of Mussolini’s dictatorship
the history of the Fascist regime until its demise during the Second World War
the ways in which Italian Fascism has been understood by contemporary analysts and by historians.

The third edition of this best-selling Lancaster Pamphlet provides an expanded and fully updated analysis. New features include additional material on Fascist totalitarianism and a completely revised consideration of the ways in which Fascism has been interpreted.

Democracy and Civil War in Spain 1931-1939

by Martin Blinkhorn

Published 24 March 1988

In the 1930s Spain underwent a period of intense and bloody upheaval that culminated in three years of civil war and the triumph of the Nationalist rebels under General Franco. Hundreds of thousands of Spanish - and non-Spanish - people died in their struggle against what was seen as the greatest evil of the time: fascism and its commitment to the defeat of democracy. Fifty years on, with the coming of a new democracy to Spain, previously inaccessible research materials have become available to historians; old orthodoxies have been challenged and the continuing debate concerning the origins of the Spanish Civil War has been lively. In the light of this renewed interest Martin Blinkhorn has provided a lucid and readable introduction to events in Spain in the 1930s.