Summary of Ruth Ben-Ghiat's Strongmen

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The first man to transform a democracy into a dictatorship was Mussolini, who created fascism. He understood that the world would never be the same after the war, and old parties and the old men who ruled them would be swept aside. #2 Fascist regimes disrupted the existing field of politics, putting two things together that were supposed to be opposites: nationalism and Socialism. Yet Mussolini, a former Socia