Notes
1 I am grateful to Adrian Lyttelton and Paul Corner for their insights on a draft of this review.
2 The research revealing Ignazio Silone's relationship with the Fascist political police is collected in Biocca and Canali (Citation2000). See also the new biography in Biocca (Citation2005). For a refutation of Biocca and Canali's conclusions, see Tamburrano et al. (Citation2001).
3 The exception is the work of historian Paola Carucci, who has written several articles on the police (see Carucci Citation1976; Citation1980; Citation1996: 21 – 73). For a popular account of political policing, see Fucci (Citation1985).
4 On the Matteotti murder, see Canali (Citation1997).
5 Two self-exculpatory memoirs are Leto (Citation1951) and Senise (Citation1946).
6 Additional zones were subsequently established in Puglia (1932), Umbria – Abruzzo – Molise – Rieti (1932), Sicily (1933), Sardinia (1937), Campania (1938) – including the provinces of Catanzaro, Reggio Calabria, and, in 1939, Potenza – and Littoria – Frosinone – Viterbo – Castelli Romani (1939). New Ovra zones were carved out of existing ones and individual provinces shifted from one jurisdiction to another. In 1941, for example, the Ovra established a zone for Tuscany, which was then reintegrated into the second zone in July 1941. Similarly, a tenth zone was established for eastern Sicily (June 1940 – October 1941). Finally, a branch of the Ovra was established in ‘Eastern Italy’, or Dalmatia under Italian military occupation. See Franzinelli, Tentacoli: 245 – 51.
7 For an overview of this historiography, see Rapone (Citation1999).
8 For an overview, see the excellent essays essays in Di Sante (Citation2001).
9 On the coercive function of these institutions and policies, see Corner (Citation2002).
10 On evangelicals and other religious minorities under Fascism, see Rochat (Citation1990).
11 For one interesting attempt at a synthesis, see Bosworth (Citation2005).