{"product_id":"making-the-fascist-self-mabel-berezin-9780801484209","title":"Making the Fascist Self: Privatizing the Russian Economy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her examination of the culture of Italian fascism, Mabel Berezin focuses on how Mussolini's regime consciously constructed a nonliberal public sphere to support its political aims. Fascism stresses form over content, she believes, and the regime tried to build its political support through the careful construction and manipulation of public spectacles or rituals such as parades, commemoration ceremonies, and holiday festivities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fascists believed they could rely on the motivating power of spectacle, and experiential symbols. In contrast with the liberal democratic notion of separable public and private selves, Italian fascism attempted to merge the public and private selves in political spectacles, creating communities of feeling in public piazzas. Such communities were only temporary, Berezin explains, and fascist identity was only formed to the extent that it could be articulated in a language of pre-existing cultural identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Italian case, those identities meant the popular culture of Roman Catholicism and the cult of motherhood. Berezin hypothesizes that at particular historical moments certain social groups which perceive the division of public and private self as untenable on cultural grounds will gain political ascendance. Her hypothesis opens a new perspective on how fascism works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mabel Berezin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801484200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801484209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.93h x 5.99w x 0.73d","brand":"Mabel Berezin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947176886527,"sku":"9780801484209","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_23ecf560-f8bc-4ef8-bef2-60118d17372b.jpg?v=1681517176","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-the-fascist-self-mabel-berezin-9780801484209","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}