1. Mussolini, the man and the politician and his rise to power 2. The Matteotti Affair and the birth of the totalitarian state 3. Fascist policy at home and abroad 4. The Vatican agreement and initial contact with Hitler 5. The opponents and the intellectuals of the regime 6. “Modernisation” in Italy and the new African colonies 7. The Italians in the 1930s and Fascist support 8. Defeat, civil war and the death of the Duce