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Scholarship on the history of Fascism has sometimes been wrapped in an excess of theoretical categorisation, or on the contrary temped to dismiss its subject as risible. Yet, as the first regime that emerged from the political violence brought about by the war that ‘failed to end’ – as Robert Gerwath puts it – Italian Fascism faced the issues posed by its time and sought to craft a political response to them. What, then, was distinctive in the Fascist view of politics? How did it take shape and disseminate? Building on in-depth biographical research on the personal archive of a Fascist professional union leader, Giuseppe Landi, whose career stretched across the entire Ventennio and progressed within the ranks of the Fascist union to backbencher MP with minor government task, in this talk I intend to address and discuss some key features of Italian Fascist political culture in historical perspective.
