Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany : comparisons and contrasts / edited by Richard Bessel.

Based on the conference Fascism in Comparative Perspective, organised in March 1993, held at St. Peter's College, Oxford.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-231) and index.

Introduction : Italy, Germany and fascism / Richard Bessel -- The "crisis of bourgeois society" and the origins of fascism / Adrian Lyttelton -- The crisis of bourgeois society in interwar Germany / Bernd Weisbrod -- Italian workers and Italian fascism / Tobias Abse -- Whatever was the attitude of German workers? : reflections on recent interpretations / Tilla Siegel -- Women in fascist Italy / Perry R. Willson -- "The value of marriage for the Volksgemeinschaft" : policies towards women and marriage under National Socialism / Gabriele Czarnowski -- Expansionist zeal, fighting power, and staying power in the Italian and German dictatorships / MacGregor Knox -- Restorative elites, German society and the Nazi pursuit of war / Michael Geyer -- From fascism to "post-fascists" : Italian roads to modernity / Carl Levy -- National Socialism and modernisation / Mark Roseman.