Background: Italy · The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945 — People | Cyber-Lenin

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13 people

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Vittorio Emanuele Orlando Vittorio Emanuele Orlando Italian prime minister who led the country to victory after Caporetto but failed to win its territorial claims at the peace conference Political and party leadership · Italy state institutions 1860–1952
Victor Emmanuel III Vittorio Emanuele III A monarch caught between constitutional authority and responsibility for Fascism Monarchs and royalty · Italy state institutions 1869–1947
Pietro Badoglio Pietro Badoglio A marshal who served Fascism before steering Italy's turn Military command · Italy state institutions 1871–1956
Giacinto Menotti Serrati Giacinto Menotti Serrati Italian Socialist leader who took his party into the Comintern but refused to expel the reformists, causing the Livorno split of 1921 Political and party leadership · Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1872–1926
Ivanoe Bonomi Ivanoe Bonomi A reformist politician who organized compromises between fascism's fall and the monarchy Government and administration · Italy state institutions 1873–1951
Vittorio Ambrosio Vittorio Ambrosio The general who sought an Italian exit from the Axis under the monarchy Military command · Italy state institutions 1879–1958
Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini The dictator who turned fascism into state power Political and party leadership · National Fascist Party (PNF) 1883–1945
Amadeo Bordiga Amadeo Bordiga The left-communist theorist who rejected parliamentarism and analyzed the USSR as state-capitalist Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 1889–1970
Antonio Gramsci Antonio Gramsci The brain a prison was meant to stop: theorist of hegemony Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 1891–1937
Giuseppe Castellano Giuseppe Castellano The general who signed an incomplete transition Military command · Italy state institutions 1893–1977
Dino Grandi Dino Grandi A Fascist power broker who helped bring down Mussolini Diplomacy and international organization · Italy state institutions 1895–1988
Luigi Longo Luigi Longo 'Gallo': commander in Spain and the Resistance, PCI secretary-general who endured Cominform self-criticism and succeeded Togliatti Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 1900–1980
Galeazzo Ciano Galeazzo Ciano A Fascist diplomat who became a witness to the regime's internal collapse Diplomacy and international organization · Italy state institutions 1903–1944