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    MARTA VERGINELLA

    Anti-fascism in European History, 09/2023
    Book Chapter

    In historical dictionaries, anti-fascism is, as a rule, defined as a political and ideological opposite of fascism. The entry Italian anti-fascism in Dizionario di Storia, which was published by Mondadori in 1993, offers a twofold understanding of anti-fascism in the inter-war period. At first, anti-fascism was identified with the resistance of the workers’ movement and left-wing parties—although compromised by uncertainties and inner conflicts—to squad Fascist violence, while after 1922 decisive anti-Fascist attitudes emerged also among members of parliament of the liberal-democratic parties and with the withdrawal of the People’s Party ministers from Mussolini’s government. In Beyond Revisionism: Rethinking