Da Caporetto a Roma: narrare la crisi e delegittimare il sistema parlamentare

marco pignotti

2024-01-01

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Abstract

In the contemporary age, the term crisis takes on countless meanings. In the political sphere, its use often leads to abuse, in particular when public opinion evokes the presence of a state of "crisis" to delegitimize the action of a counterpart by equating it to an enemy and not an adversary. The volume aims to apply this historiographical category to the period from the end of the war to the formation of the Mussolini government. It is a time span during which there is a recurrent evocation of a "state of crisis" which, depending on the generating source, is variably attributed to the institutional system, the parties, society, the economy. All these different types of crisis fall within the more general "crisis" of the political system. In all the essays, a profound biunivocal connection emerges between the institutional dimension and the narration of democracy, since the artificial "narration of the crisis" of the parliamentary system translates into the delegitimization of the constitutional structure in the first post-war period.