HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Benito Mussolini, Italian Fascism, Political Philosophy
1 Nov 2017
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One such case was italy, which had been unified only in the 1860s, and whose democratic institutions were dominated by corrupt and/or ineffectual politicians. Italy had at first resisted going to war in 1914, but then its participation had been bought by the entente powers with the promise of territorial gains at the war(cid:495)s conclusion. Although italy emerged on the winning side it had sustained considerable losses, and the paris settlement did not grant italy all that had been promised by britain and france in the treaty of london during the war. This led to widespread resentment, which combined with the continuing social divisions of its incompletely industrialized economy, put the democratic system into further disrepute. Opposition to the liberal constitutionalism of italy emerged at the extremes of politics. On the political left, encouraged by what looked to be a successful workers revolution in russia, socialists and communists in the north of.
