leader to improve aspects of Italian society‚ Benito Mussolini came into power as the Prime Minister of Italy in 1922‚ following the March on Rome. He was a steadfast dictator that was able to continuously increase his level of power and influence by implementing many furtive tactics to ensure that his position remained in place and unchallenged in Italy. However Italy’s involvement in World War Two became a key factor in the downfall of Mussolini‚ and in 1943 he was replaced as Prime Minister.
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welcomed his authority. They hoped that he would stop the strikes and riots that had put Italy in a bad place. They were ready to submit to dictatorship‚ provided the national economy was stabilized and their country restored to its dignity and Mussolini seemed to be the only one that could do that. The Fascists introduced ambitious programs of public works that caused Italy’s democratic system to be abolished in favor of Mussolini’s one-party state‚ opposition parties‚ trade unions‚ and the free
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Lenin‚ a Red Tsar? It is widely accepted that Lenin was to be the next Tsar of the time‚ The Red Tsar in fact. With his views gradually growing more radical‚ this can be seen to be true in a lot of instances. Lenin was a key figure in European history. Lenin led the Bolsheviks to overthrow the Russian Tsar‚ and to bring socialism to Russia. Lenin introduced Communism to Russia. This changed the history for Russia as well as the rest of Europe‚ and to this day has had a huge effect on the Russian
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Ben Hubbard Thur: 6:30PM Benito Mussolini‚ the founder of Fascism in 1919‚ was the prominent leader of Italy from 19221943. His rule came from the fact that he‚ and the Black Shirts‚ a group of organized jobless war veterans‚ went to Rome when Italy was beginning to fail politically. He talked and created an image that he was the only man fit of restoring Italy. He was finally able to form a government with King Victor Emmanuel’s permission‚ however‚ he slowly began to dismantle the Italian democratic government and
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Lenin Lenin and his principals are the subject of a huge historiographical debate. The controversy surrounding Lenin’s pragmatism in the face of social‚ political and economic instability begs the question: did Lenin compromise his principals in the race for survival? It is astonishing that surrounded by the turmoil that was Russia in the early 20th century Lenin actually survived for so long. During the years of 1917-18 he encountered food shortages‚ war and a vast amount of strikes. In 1921
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“It always takes about 10 years to have some distance. And distance allows you to laugh about yourself and things you wouldn’t dare laugh about when you’re right in the middle of it‚” director of Goodbye‚ Lenin!‚ Wolfgang Becker‚ stated in an interview discussing the movie. Goodbye‚ Lenin! focuses on the drastic shift in the lives of East Germans following the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the rise of communist nation‚ Russia‚ after World War II‚ came the conflict between communist and capitalist
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have been many dictators in the world. Today I will compare and contrast two of them‚ Fransisco Franco and Benito Mussolini. So let’s jump right is with Franco. Franco was a Spanish general who‚ after the Spanish government began to fail in 1936‚ took up arms and rebelled against the government. It took him three years‚ and the help of other famous Fascists such as Hitler and Mussolini‚ but in 1939‚ he became the dictator of Spain‚ or El Caudillo (the leader) as most people referred to him as. Mussolini’s
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Goodbye‚ Lenin is a heart-warming film about a son’s attempt to make time stand still in order to keep his sick mother from knowing the truth about the political changes. His mother‚ Christiana‚ is a strong political activist in the Socialist party in East Germany. She becomes ill after she sees her son‚ Alex‚ protesting in the streets‚ she falls into a coma after suffering a heart attack. During the eight months she is in a coma‚ the Berlin Wall comes down and capitalism floods in from the west
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ESSAY BY:Xeneb Shah Our world has had some powerful leaders who have developed their countries as well as having had major impact on the world. Joseph Stalin‚ Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler were three of these leaders. All these three leaders were the most powerful and influential leaders of their time. Each one of them made a significant impact on their country as well as on world’s history. Although they received similar success‚ all of them reached their success quite differently
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Benito Mussolini The new state of Italy was far from being a great success in the years before 1914. The First World War left the Italian economy crippled and her treatment by the Treaty of Versailles did not help at all. Between 1919 and 1922 there were five different governments in Italy‚ all of which were useless in taking action to what was needed. Benito Mussolini was born in 1883. Before the start of WW1‚ he had been a socialist journalist. He left the socialist party and started
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