HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Giacomo Matteotti, Italian Fascism, Labour Leader
10 Dec 2016
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Experience and results of the first world war raised uncomfortable questions about the. 19th century path to modernity was particularly evident in societies that had only recently become nation states and in which liberal institution and political parties had been only nominally established. One such case was italy, unified only in the 1860s, and whose democratic institutions were dominated by corrupt and/or ineffectual politicians. Italy had at resisted going at war in 1914, but then its participation had been bought by the e(cid:374)te(cid:374)te po(cid:449)e(cid:396)s (cid:449)ith the p(cid:396)o(cid:373)ise of te(cid:396)(cid:396)ito(cid:396)ial gai(cid:374)s at the (cid:449)a(cid:396)(cid:859)s (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)lusion. 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. 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.
