La classe dirigente liberale e la monarchia di fronte al fascismo

One of Roberto Vivarelli's strands of inquiry was certainly the careful analysis of the conduct of the ruling class in the face of the problems of the early postwar period and its attitude toward fascism in an attempt to understand the reasons for the collapse of the liberal state. Vivarelli, in fact, was deeply convinced that fascism had been the consequence of the collapse of the liberal state, not its cause. He, moreover, believed that without a careful study of the context, the reasons for fascism's victory, which constituted the failure of the liberal season, could not be understood. [Publisher's text]