L'inchiostro dei vinti. Stampa e ideologia neofascista 1945-1953, by Elisabetta Cassina Wolff, Milan, Mursia, 2013, 398 pp., €18.00, ISBN 97-888-425-4558-3
L'inchiostro dei vinti. Stampa e ideologia neofascista 1945-1953, by Elisabetta Cassina Wolff, Milan, Mursia, 2013, 398 pp., €18.00, ISBN 97-888-425-4558-3
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Linchiostro dei vinti。
DOI:
10.1080/13532944.2013.841011
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发表时间:
2016
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0.5
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De Nardi S
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作者:
De Nardi S
In her book, Cassina Wolff takes us on a journey through the ideological trends, stances and aspirations of so-called neo-Fascists in the aftermath of the fall of Mussolini’s Repubblica Sociale Italiana (RSI) and the end of the Second World War. The title echoes Gianpaolo Pansa’s revisionist bestseller Il sangue dei vinti (2003), although the scope–and quality of scholarship–could not be further removed.Cassina Wolff ensures through early disclaimers that the reader knows exactly what kind of material they can expect to engage with. The scope of the investigation is well defined both in a thematic sense (ideology is thoroughly explored, but not the ideological influences on political activism per se) and in its sample size: although she concentrates on the years 1945–1953, she tackles a wide spectrum of neo-Fascist titles and publications (circa 70). Cassina Wolff explains her sampling strategy as a decision to maintain a consistent, clear focus on the specifically and explicitly ideological above anything else. The appendix offers an interesting sample of the publications and documents she consulted and cited, dating from the ventennio (eg the 1927 Carta del Lavoro) to the RSI. The reproduction of documents and papers in their entirety, aside from their intrinsic historic value, is particularly helpful in understanding and navigating through the array of attitudes, trends and critiques offered by the various neo-Fascist authors, whose writings are helpfully grouped by themes rather than chronologically in the main body of the work. Offering a cross-section of testimonies of agguerriti Fascist theoreticians (among others, Pini, Cione, Pettinato, Costamagna, Soffici, di Lauro, Evola, Massi, and Erra), the book demonstrates the eclectic nature of the neo-Fascist credo, far from the nostalgic, reactionary brush it is often painted with in the mainstream anti-Fascist Resistance culture: if anything, the movement’s champions were ‘nostalgic for the future’(p. 269).