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Benito Mussolini

Mussolini was originally a socialist politician and journalist at the ''Avanti!'' newspaper. In 1912, he became a member of the National Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), but was expelled for advocating military intervention in World War I. In 1914, Mussolini founded a newspaper, ''Il Popolo d'Italia'', and served in the Royal Italian Army until he was wounded and discharged in 1917. He eventually denounced the PSI, his views now centering on Italian nationalism, and founded the fascist movement which opposed egalitarianism and class conflict, instead advocating "revolutionary nationalism" transcending class lines. In October 1922, following the March on Rome, he was appointed prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel III. After removing opposition through his secret police and outlawing labour strikes, Mussolini and his followers consolidated power through laws that transformed the nation into a one-party dictatorship. Within five years, he established dictatorial authority by legal and illegal means and aspired to create a totalitarian state. In 1929, he signed the Lateran Treaty to establish Vatican City.
Mussolini's foreign policy was based on the fascist doctrine of ''spazio vitale'' ('living space'), which aimed to expand Italian possessions. In the 1920s, he ordered the Pacification of Libya, the bombing of Corfu over an incident with Greece, and annexed Fiume, after a treaty with Yugoslavia. In 1936, Ethiopia was conquered following the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and merged into Italian East Africa (AOI) with Eritrea and Somalia. In 1939, Italian forces annexed Albania. Between 1936 and 1939, Mussolini ordered an intervention in Spain in favour of Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War. Mussolini took part in the Treaty of Lausanne, Four-Power Pact and Stresa Front. However, he alienated the democratic powers as tensions grew in the League of Nations, which he left in 1937. Now hostile to France and Britain, Italy formed the Axis alliance with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
The wars of the 1930s cost Italy enormous resources, leaving it unprepared for the Second World War; Mussolini initially declared Italy's non-belligerence. However, in June 1940, believing Allied defeat imminent, he joined the war on Germany's side, to share the spoils. After the tide turned, and the Allied invasion of Sicily, King Victor Emmanuel III dismissed Mussolini as head of government and placed him in custody in July 1943. After the king agreed to an armistice with the Allies, in September 1943, Mussolini was rescued in the Gran Sasso raid by Germany. Hitler made Mussolini the figurehead of a puppet state in German-occupied north Italy, the Italian Social Republic, which served as a collaborationist regime of the Germans. With Allied victory imminent, Mussolini and mistress Clara Petacci attempted to flee to Switzerland, but were captured by communist partisans and executed on 28 April 1945. Provided by Wikipedia
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The corporate state : with an appendix including the Labour charter, the text of laws on syndical and corporate organizations and explanatory notes / by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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The political and social doctrine of fascism / by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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Speech delivered / by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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The doctrine of fascism / by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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Fascism : doctrine and institutions. by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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Dottrina del fascismo / by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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My autobiography by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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Four speeches on the corporate state : with an appendix including the Labour charter, the text of laws on syndical and corporate organisations and explanatory notes / by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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My autobiography / by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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Foreign evidence on the war at the Italian front, 1915-1918 / by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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The corporate state. by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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Testimonianze straniere sulla guerra italiana 1915-1918 / by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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Memoirs, 1942-1943 : with documents relating to the period / by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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Fascism; doctrine and institutions. by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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The doctrine of fascism : translation by E. Cope. by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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La mia vita / by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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Talks with Mussolini / by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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My diary, 1915-17 / by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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The fall of Mussolini : his own story / by Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
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