technique de coup d'Etat militaire

The Technique Of Revolution by Curzio Malaparte Morris Productions Aurora, Il FOREWORD In1931, Italian journalist and political writer, Curzio Malaparte, published a book in Italy entitledTECHNIQUE DU COUP D'ÊTAT.This work was based on his own personal observation of the activities in Russia at the time of the Revolution, Poland at the time of the Bolshevik invasion of 1920 and Berlin during the Kapp putsch. Malaparte was an early supporter of Mussolini and had first-hand knowledge of the means by whichIl Ducehad come to power in 1922. Hisobservations into the means by which power is acquired are acute and accurate but it is interesting to note that in 1931, he dismisses Adolf Hitler as a “fat Austrian” and little more than a second-hand imitator of Benito Mussolini. Malaparte’s work studied the successful, and unsuccessful,coups d’Etator seizure of power and his work was both seminal and topical for a European audience of the 1930s. However, when this book was translated into English and released in America in 1932, it appeared at the most serious time of the worldwide depression when millions of angry Americans had been thrown out of work; seen their life savings vanish, reduced to humiliating poverty and unable to provide for their families. Herbert Hoover was president and he had made no visible public efforts to address the growing and bitter frustrations in the United States.