Italian Socialist Party

Benito Mussolini appears to stride through 20th-century Italian history like a buffoon, a fascist dictator whose ludicrous posing was dwarfed by the incalculably more sinister nature of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. Young socialist Mussolini was born in 1883. As a young man, he was a rousing orator, a tireless journalist – and a socialist. In 1912, after years of hack journalism and self-promotion, he was appointed editor of the Socialist Party newspaper Avanti!, preaching left wing revolution. But

How successful were Giolitti’s government in promoting political stability in Italy in the years 1903 -1914? Giolitti’s government was extremely unsuccessful in promoting political stability in Italy. It seemed that the Italian liberal state suffered from political divisions all over the country; this was something no other Liberal western power had experience in the years 1903 to 1914. However under the ‘political divisions’, Giolitti was trying to reform and modernise Italy during his periods

who reside in Italy may not vote for their president or prime minister, but they do vote for the parliament, which elects the President. So, they indirectly vote for who they wish to represent them as well as who they want to become president. The Italian legal system is extremely slow, and it takes up to a year just to get a court case presented to the court. The people within the court system often abuse their powers to use the law to their advantage. The criminal courts in Italy are made up of

Romagna, on July 29, 1883. His mother was named Rosa Mussolini and she was a devout Catholic school teacher. His father was named Alessandro Mussolini and he was a blacksmith and a socialist. Benito was named after a Mexican reformist,

powerful Dictators. Benito Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883 in Dovia Di Predappio, Flori, Italy. He lived as an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, which he created in 1919. Benito’s father Alessandro remained a blacksmith and socialist and his mother Rosa was a schoolteacher. Mussolini followed his father’s footsteps in becoming a socialist. His parents feared that Benito would become mute from not being able to speak properly. But thanks to his mother’s

the outcome of the 1948 Italian general election. Prior to the election, Italian politics were increasingly polarized, with communist parties accounting for a sizable portion of the electorate, and poised to take control of the government in the upcoming election. The United States, under the directives laid out in the Truman Doctrine, was determined to confront communist activities within democratic, free-market nations such as Italy. U.S. officials believed that the Italian communists had a real

as a Socialist and rose to prominence in that party by 1912, he abandoned it by 1914. As a Socialist, he had advocated violent revolution, rather than the gradual, evolutionary approach favored by many in the party. His writing and speaking ability helped gain him power in the party and the editorship of Avanti. This was the official Socialist newspaper (Payne, 1995). At the age of 29, then, Mussolini had obtained quite a bit of attention and power. He controlled the press of the Socialist party

On May 9, 1936, a crowd of four hundred thousand had gathered around the Palazzo Venezia in Rome to hear the speech of their powerful and adored leader, Benito Mussolini. The Italian dictator was loved by the majority of the population and even referred to, by some of his own generals, as a god. Regardless of what outside opinions might have been towards Mussolini the country still respected him. The question then becomes, what were the circumstances in Italy that attributed to the dictator’s rise

1919-1922 was largely due to Mussolini himself. It is worthwhile to examine the consequences of government inefficiency, the growth of the socialist movement, the support of others as an enabling factor, but his leadership allowed the fascist party to be relevant, and to take advantage of these other conditions. Though trasformismo and socialism did destabilise Italian society, it was nevertheless Mussolini who offered solutions; though he assumed control of the country through Victor Emmanuel’s assent

ever gained majority in the House of Deputies, thus causing coalition agreements between the parties. Due to the coalition governments, the political leaders were not able to achieve any stable goals and improve the conditions of the country, politics had become polarised. Therefore the people of Italy had to look for alternative governing bodies, to improve the turmoil in which they found themselves. Socialist groups began to witness an increase in members and riots spread throughout the country. While