Fascist and anti-Fascist violence in Italy (1919–1926)
| Civil unrest in Italy (1919–1926) Fascist Revolution | ||||||||
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| Part of the Revolutions of 1917–23 | ||||||||
Benito Mussolini and fascists during the March on Rome in 1922 | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
| Far-left and anti-fascists | Government | Fascists | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
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Amadeo Bordiga (communist) Antonio Gramsci (communist) Errico Malatesta (anarcho-communist) Guido Picelli (Arditi del Popolo, an anti-fascist coalition) |
1919–1922 1922–1926 Victor Emmanuel III Benito Mussolini | Benito Mussolini (allied with the government after 1922) | ||||||
The Kingdom of Italy witnessed significant widespread civil unrest and political strife in the aftermath of World War I and the rise of Italian fascism, the far-right movement led by Benito Mussolini, which opposed the rise at the international level of the political left, especially the far-left along with others who opposed fascism. This period of unrest was labelled by the Fascists and later by some historians "the Fascist Revolution" (rivoluzione fascista), although the term did not become commonly accepted by Italian historiography.