Fascism

Mussolini salutes in front of the statue of the Roman emperor Nerva, in the 1930s

How Italian dictator Benito Mussolini became the first face of fascism

Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain as dictator from 1939 to 1975, raises his arm in salute

Francisco Franco: is it accurate to call the Spanish dictator a fascist?

Striking workers carry banners through the streets of Petrograd (St Petersburg) at the start of the February Revolution that brought the fall of the Russian monarchy the next month. (Getty Images)

Russia’s revolutions: How 1917 shaped a century

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, depicted in an undated Communist poster. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The red dawn: the October Revolution

The Prince of Wales loading a rifle in the Grenadiers, First World War, 1914. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

First World War

Edward VIII: How war scarred the playboy prince

Michael X, (right, foreground) black power advocate, in Hyde Park. (Photo by Terence Spencer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Michael X and the British war on black power

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Second World War

Who were the young people drawn to Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists?

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Spying on the king: when MI5 targeted Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

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Second World War

Persuading the people: British propaganda in the Second World War

Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists

The Library Britain’s tearoom fascists

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Hotel Florida: Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War

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Fighters Against Fascism: British Heroes of the Spanish Civil War

The statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Getty Images)

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