In order to analyse the historical and contemporary conditions in Italy leading to a fascist government in 1922, I will consider and illustrate a number of relevant points. That is the historical aspects being industrial and democratic weaknesses. The contemporary factors being; the threat of communism, the growing anarchism in Italian urban areas and the feeling of antipathy over the Versailles Treaty, particularly the idea that Italians had been cheated, demonstrated by the Fiume affair and that these factors stimulated and energized the growth of nationalism, the driving force of fascism. In addition to these industrial and contemporary factors there is also a consideration that the fascist's rise to power was aided by Mussolini's apparent seizure of power.…
