Table of Contents

Introduction: Italy, Germany and fascism Richard Bessel; 1. The 'crisis of bourgeois society' and the origins of fascism Adrian Lyttelton; 2. The crisis of bourgeois society in interwar Germany Bernd Weisbrod; 3. Italian workers and Italian fascism Tobias Abse; 4. Whatever was the attitude of German workers? Reflections on recent interpretations Tilla Siegel; 5. Women in fascist Italy Perry R. Willson; 6. 'The value of marriage for the Volksgemeinschaft': policies towards women and marriage under National Socialism Gabriele Czarowski; 7. Expansionist zeal, fighting power, and staying power in the Italian and German dictatorships MacGregor Knox; 8. Restorative elites, German society and the Nazi pursuit of war Michael Geyer; 9. From fascism to 'post-fascists': Italian roads to modernity Carl Levy; 10. National Socialism and modernisation Mark Roseman.