The Changing Face of the Enemy in Fascist Italy

Stone, M.

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“…In Italian civilian propaganda during the war, Catholic rhetoric emphasising the communist threat to family values were usually distinct from the racist Othering that focused on the barbarism and savagery of Italy’s communist and Slavic enemies (Stone 2008, 333–334). This distinction generally applied as well to the individual articles and drawings in La Tradotta , but the constant repetition of both Catholic and racist themes week after week created intersections.…”

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Religion, race, and the nation inLa Tradotta del Fronte Giulio, 1942–1943

Virtue

2018

Mod. Italy

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This paper examines intersections and divergences between Catholic universalism and Fascist ethno-nationalism in the pages ofLa Tradotta del Fronte Giulio, a satirical weekly newspaper for Italian military personnel in occupied Yugoslavia during the Second World War. Military propagandists appealed to grassroots Catholicism to motivate demoralised Italian soldiers in the last year of war against the communist-led Yugoslav partisan movement. Their use of Catholic themes revealed overlapping values but also apparent incongruities between Christianity, Fascism, and Italian military culture that had been evident throughout theventennio. While Catholic anti-communism blended relatively seamlessly with nationalist-Fascist anti-Slavism to depict the partisan enemy as a dehumanised Other, the use of conventional piety and Christian humanitarianism in the army’s propaganda contradicted Fascist and military concepts of the ideal Italian ‘new man’. In the process, military propagandists sowed the seeds for thebrava gentemyth that dominated postwar memory and national identity in Italy.

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Religion, race, and the nation inLa Tradotta del Fronte Giulio, 1942–1943

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2018

Mod. Italy

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In Search of Order: Portrayal of Communists in Cold War Italy

Forlenza¹

2020

Journal of Cold War Studies

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This article analyzes the battle between Italian Communists and anti-Communists during the early Cold War. Without denying the critical role of high politics or the rivalry between Washington and Moscow, the article places the home front at the center of its analysis, using a bottom-up perspective. Drawing on the rhetoric, remembrances, and visual propaganda produced by Communists and anti-Communists alike, the article shifts the focus of attention away from governments and diplomacy and toward imagination and culture as agents of historical change. Looking beyond the institutional-administrative sphere of politics, the article explores the aspirations, emotions, expectations, and hopes formulated by Italians under conditions of existential uncertainty. The article concludes that the Cold War in Italy was, above all else, an internal contest between two parties over what the recent past meant and what would ensure a just and stable order for society.

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Italian Fascism’s Soviet Enemy and the Propaganda of Hate, 1941-1943

Stone

2012

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In conjunction with the war against the Soviet Union which began in June 1941, the Italian Fascist regime promulgated a virulent brand of anti-communism and oversaw a campaign of hate-mongering propaganda targeted at its Soviet enemy. This propaganda produced to justify the war highlighted the Manichean struggle against the Soviet Union and the special horrors of the Soviet communist enemy. Using longstanding stereotypes about a Russian lack of civilization, 19th-century ideas about racially expressed biological difference, and more recent tropes about Bolshevik barbarism and immorality, official representations of Fascism’s historic enemy—the communist—put forward a racially degenerate, godless peril from the East bent on the destruction of Western civilization and on the desecration of the Italian family and the Catholic faith.

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The Changing Face of the Enemy in Fascist Italy

Cited by 3 publications

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Religion, race, and the nation inLa Tradotta del Fronte Giulio, 1942–1943

Religion, race, and the nation inLa Tradotta del Fronte Giulio, 1942–1943

In Search of Order: Portrayal of Communists in Cold War Italy

Italian Fascism’s Soviet Enemy and the Propaganda of Hate, 1941-1943

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