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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1977 - 8/31/1977

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

The Organization of Popular Leisure in Fascist Italy: Agricultural Modernism

FAIN: FT-13510-77

Victoria De Grazia
CUNY Research Foundation, Lehman College (Bronx, NY 10468-1527)

To use archival sources, government and fascist party publications and the national and local press to examine the implementation of fascist policies toward welfare and "low" culture in interwar Italy and to analyze their impact on popular associational life. The study will clarify the fascist leisure time (dopolavoro) organizations double function as community center and agency of fascist propaganda.