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How do authoritarian leaders use threats, illusions and force to seize and maintain power? And what does it take for truth and justice to prevail? IDEAS explores the rise and fall of pivotal authoritarians and their regimes from recent world history, and asks what we can learn from their eventual downfall. We start our series with the legacy of Italian fascism and its relevance today. Listen to other episodes in this series: How to Defeat Authoritarianism | Augusto Pinochet's Chile How to Defeat Authoritarianism | Idi Amin's Uganda How to Defeat Authoritarianism | Bashar al-Assad's Syria How to Defeat Authoritarianism | Today's Authoritarians Guests in this podcast: Joshua Arthurs is an associate professor in the Faculty of Information and the Department of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto. Robert Ventresca is the president of King's University College at Western University and a historian of 20th century Europe. Aitana Guia is the Mackenzie Papineau Memorial Chair in Modern Spanish History at York University, Toronto, Canada.