Fascism shattered a school of historians whose members dispersed into exile or regime service

Evidence

The first edition of his La Coltura Italiana (published in 1923 but written before the fascists came to power) contained many passages including a relatively complimentary description of the 1919-20 Ordine Nuovo which Prezzolini omitted in later editions, in order to avoid giving offence to the regime. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1935 (#expands, via linked claim)

One of the inherent problems of conspiracy against the established authority is always that of communication. Stuck away in Madrid, Salan since December was feeling both cut off and bored. Madrid, where the “Mandarin” had set up court at the Hotel Princesa, was a veritable colony for exiled right-wingers — Belgian Rexists, Argentinian Peronists, French Pétainists and former collabos — all living locked up in their pasts. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1336 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Fascist regimes stage trials to eliminate intellectuals rather than to establish guilt; Sincere Nazi intellectuals were discarded by the regime; Intellectuals revise their own published history to appease a new regime — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1935 (+4 more)

Broader Connections