Fascism (TRIH ep 17)
1922 · Resource
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland discuss the nature, origins and appeal of fascism. They argue fascism is primarily a product of specific post–First World War conditions — national humiliation, revolutionary aspiration and violent modernism — rather than a timeless temperament. Key topics include Benito Mussolini and his Roman iconography (fasces), Gabriele D'Annunzio's proto‑fascist role at Fiume, and Adolf Hitler's racialized reading of antiquity fused with distorted Darwinism.
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Around 1922
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)