Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age

Mussolini and the Emergence of Italian Fascism (1x34)

Udgivelsesdato: Apr 06, 1998

Along with Communism, another political product of the Great War was Fascism. Fascist ideas had circulated since the 1890s, but it took the war to create the conditions for Fascist success. The first Fascist regime came to power in Italy in 1922 under Benito Mussolini, a socialist-turned-nationalist, former journalist, and political adventurer.