Die Geburtswehen des italienischen Antifaschismus (1920–1925)

Abstract

The development of anti-Fascism in Italy was a laborious and difficult process: whereas a few had grasped the true nature of Fascism, many others believed Fascism to be a temporary phenomenon or that it might be transferred into the frame of legality or ‘normalised’. What made a large part of Italian intellectuals wait and see? Why did anti-Fascism reach its turning point only as late as 1924–1925?