Carlo Tresca was an Italian-American dissident and newspaper editor,orator,and labor organizer and activist who was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1910s. He is remembered as a leading public opponent of fascism,Stalinism,and Mafia infiltration of the trade unions for the purposes of labor racketeering and corruption.
Giacomo Matteotti was an Italian socialist politician. On 30 May 1924,he openly spoke in the Italian Parliament alleging the Italian fascists committed fraud in the 1924 Italian general election,and denounced the violence they used to gain votes. Eleven days later,he was kidnapped and killed by Fascists.
Edda Ciano,Countess of Cortellazzo and Buccari was the daughter of Benito Mussolini,fascist Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Her husband,the fascist propagandist and Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano,was executed in January 1944 for his role in Mussolini's ouster. She strongly denied her involvement in the National Fascist Party regime after her father's execution by the Italian partisans in April 1945.
Renzo De Felice was an Italian historian,who specialized in the Fascist era,writing,among other works,a 6000-page biography of Mussolini. He argued that Mussolini was a revolutionary modernizer in domestic issues but a pragmatist in foreign policy who continued the Realpolitik policies of Italy from 1861 to 1922. Historian of Italy Philip Morgan has called De Felice's biography of Mussolini "a very controversial,influential and at the same time problematic re-reading of Mussolini and Fascism" and rejected the contention that his work rose above politics to "scientific objectivity",as claimed by the author and his defenders.
The Mussolini family is a well-known family in Italy. The most prominent member was Benito Mussolini,the fascist Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Other members of the family include:
Angelica Balabanoff was a Russian-Italian communist and social democratic activist of Jewish origin. She served as secretary of the Comintern from 1919 to 1920,and later became a political party leader in Italy.
Filippo Turati was an Italian sociologist,criminologist,poet and socialist politician.
Ida Irene Dalser was the first wife of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian dictator who founded and led the National Fascist Party (PNF). He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 1943,as well as Duce of Italian fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919 until his summary execution in 1945 by Italian partisans. As dictator of Italy and principal founder of fascism,Mussolini inspired and supported the international spread of fascist movements during the inter-war period.
Mussolini and I is a 1985 made-for-television docudrama film directed by Alberto Negrin. It chronicles the strained relationship between Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and his son-in-law and foreign minister,Count Galeazzo Ciano,based on Ciano's diaries. Made in English as an Italian-French-German-Swiss-Spanish-US co-production,with Bob Hoskins,Anthony Hopkins and Susan Sarandon in the leading roles,it first aired on Rai Uno on 15 April 1985 in a 130-minute version. On 8 September 1985,it premiered in the USA on HBO in an extended four-hour version.
Giovacchino Forzano was an Italian playwright,librettist,stage and film director. A resourceful writer,he authored numerous popular plays and produced opera librettos for most of the major Italian composers of the early twentieth century,including the librettos for Giacomo Puccini's Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi.
This is a list of events relating to Italian television in 1994.
Events from the year 1921 in Italy.
Fascist Italy is a term used to describe the Kingdom of Italy governed by the National Fascist Party from 1922 to 1943 with Benito Mussolini as prime minister and dictator. The Italian Fascists imposed totalitarian rule and crushed political opposition,while promoting economic modernization,traditional social values and a rapprochement with the Roman Catholic Church.
The Maximalist Italian Socialist Party or PSIm,was the residual part of the Italian Socialist Party in exile following the split that occurred during the first phases of the Socialist Convention of Grenoble,held on 16 March 1930,by Pietro Nenni and the fusionist fraction.
Antonio Scurati is an Italian writer and academic. A professor of comparative literature and creative writing at the IULM University of Milan,mass media scholar,and editorialist for the Corriere della Sera,Scurati has won the main Italian literary prizes. In 2019,he was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize for his novel M:Son of the Century (2018),which is part of a planned tetralogy dedicated to Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism. It was at the top of the charts for two consecutive years,was translated into over forty countries,and is set for a television series produced by Sky Original in 2024.
Left-interventionism was the part of the progressive interventionist movement of various left-wing matrices,such as those of Mazzinian,social reformist,democratic socialist,dissident socialist,reformist socialist,and revolutionary socialist persuasions,that saw in the Great War the historical opportunity for the completion of unification of Italy,and for those who later became part of the Italian fascist movement,such as Benito Mussolini,as the palingenesis of the Italian political system and the organization of the economic,legal,and social system,and therefore a profound change.
Anna Maria Mussolini,was an Italian radio presenter. She was the fifth child of Benito Mussolini and Rachele Guidi.
M. Son of the Century is an upcoming historical drama television series directed by Joe Wright,based on the novel of the same name by Antonio Scurati. The series centers on the early political career of Benito Mussolini in the 1920s. It will premiere on Sky Atlantic in late 2024.
Ugo Coccia was an Italian socialist journalist and politician who served as the secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) for two terms from 1926 to 1928 and from 1930 to 1932. He died in exile in Hyères,France.
