The Third Rome, 1922-43

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Aristotle Kallis

   Pages 1-18

3. The Fascist Conquest of Rome

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   Pages 19-41

4. Fascism and the City: Architecture and Urban Eutopia

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   Pages 42-72

5. Fascism and Romanità: Framing the Ancient Imperial City

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   Pages 73-105

6. Fascism and the ‘City of the Popes’

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   Pages 106-130

7. The Fascist Layer (I): The Quest for ‘Signature’ Buildings

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   Pages 131-158

8. The New Fascist Layer (II): Building for Grandeur and Necessity

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   Pages 159-197

9. Fascism in Mostra: Exhibitions as Heterotopias

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   Pages 198-225

10. Rome and the Dream of Fascist Universalism

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    Pages 226-258

11. Conclusion: The ‘Third Rome’ as Fascism’s imago mundi

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    Pages 259-270

12. Back Matter

    Pages 271-324

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What kind of city was the Fascist 'third Rome'? Imagined and real, rooted in the past and announcing a new, 'revolutionary' future, Fascist Rome was imagined both as the ideal city and as the sacred centre of a universal political religion. Kallis explores this through a journey across the sites, monuments, and buildings of the fascist capital.

• fascism
• Rome
• modernism
• architecture
• urban planning
• Mussolini
• building
• revolution

• Lancaster University, UK

  Aristotle Kallis

Aristotle Kallis is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses on the study of European fascism/the extreme right, interwar modernism, and mass violence. His principal publications include Genocide and Fascism (2009), Nazi Propaganda in the Second World War (2005), and The Fascism Reader (2003).

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