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The Culture of Dictatorship History 408 / September 25, 2012. The pageantry of fascism: Mussolini puts on a spectacle. The cult of personality: Mussolini portrayed as a universal genius - here: as a pilot at an airshow, July 1932.
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The cult of personality: Mussolini portrayed as a universal genius- here: as a pilot at an airshow, July 1932
Public-works projects:Mussolini (allegedly) makes the trainsrun on time
Modern art in Italian fascism(here: An exhibition catalog commemorating ten years since the “March on Rome,” 1932)
Celebrating traditional family values- Mussolini signs Concordat with the Catholic church, 1929
Youth programs: get ’em young…Here: cover of a school notebook
Italian propagandists set their sights on Abyssinia (Ethiopia)