Italian Fascism

Characteristics and Examples

Images curated by Meghan SheaText by Eric Beckman

Opera Nazionale Pro-Derelictis. I Figli d'Italia. July - September 1934. Monthly publication on educational issues, with illustrations and advertisements

Fasces, an ancientRoman symbol of authority

Gioventù Fascista. Rome, April 1931.A propaganda magazine designed for young Fascists and featuring stories and cartoons praising the regime.

• Characteristics of fascism– Mass movement– militarism

Giovinezza in Marcia. Three children's school notebooks, 1935. Children were required to use these notebooks with colored Fascist cartoons and quotations from Mussolini on the front and back.

• Characteristics of fascism– Counter-revolutionary– Extreme nationalism

Benito Mussolini

• Characteristics of fascism– Strong leadership– Dictatorial

government

Mussolini and Hitler