<P>In <EM>Mussolini and Fascist Italy</EM> Martin Blinkhorn explains the significance of the man, the movement and the regime which dominated Italian life between 1922 and the closing stages of the Second World War. He examines: </P><UL><LI>those aspects of post-Risorgimento Italy which provided the longterm context vital to an understanding of Fascism </LI><LI>the social and political convulsions wrought by economic change after 1890 and by Italy¿s intervention in the First World War </LI><LI>the Fascist movement''s rapid rise from obscurity to power and the subsequent establishment of Mussolini¿s dictatorship </LI><LI>the history of the Fascist regime until its demise during the Second World War </LI><LI>the ways in which Italian Fascism has been understood by contemporary analysts and by historians.</LI></UL><P>The third edition of this best-selling Lancaster Pamphlet provides an expanded and fully updated analy