1. Economic factors in Mussolini's rise to power
It is certain that Mussolini's rise to power was due to some extent to the economic problems in Italy. ... For years the lower classes had dismissed the parliament hierarchy as corrupt and ineffective due to Transformismo, but as they were excluded from the voting franchise their opinions were usually unheard and irrelevant. ... This sense of disunity was a crucial part in Mussolini's rise to power, he could see Italy's ambitions for a sense of true unity and in his manifesto of 1921 Mussolini promised "complete unification for Italy with a major role in the Mediterranean." this...
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