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Examine the circumstances which led to the overthrow of democracy and the establishment of Fascist dictatorship in Italy.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Revolution and Counter-Revolution

Italy's young and fragile parliamentary democracy collapsed within four years of the First World War's end, replaced by Mussolini's dictatorship not through violent revolution but through a sequence of exploited crises and elite miscalculations.

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  • Post-War Disillusionment and Frustration
  • The Biennio Rosso and Fear of Revolution
  • Mussolini's Opportunist Rise
  • Failure of Effective Opposition
  • The March on Rome and Royal Capitulation
  • Consolidation into Dictatorship, 1922-26

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