Biennio Rosso

Biennio Rosso
Biennio Rosso
Part of the Revolutions of 1917–1923
	Armed workers occupying factories in Milan, September 1920
Date	1919–1920
Location	Italy
Caused by	The economic crisis in the Aftermath of World War I, with high unemployment and political instability
Methods	Mass strikes, worker manifestations as well as self-management experiments through land and factory occupations
Resulted in	The revolutionary period was followed by the violent reaction of the fascist blackshirts militia and eventually by the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini in 1922.
Parties
Revolutionaries Workers' councils; Red Guards;	Italy Blackshirts;

The Biennio Rosso (English: "Red Biennium" or "Two Red Years") was a two-year period, between 1919 and 1920, of intense social conflict in Italy, following the First World War.^[1] The revolutionary period was followed by the violent reaction of the fascist blackshirts militia and eventually by the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini in 1922.

^ Brunella Dalla Casa, Composizione di classe, rivendicazioni e professionalità nelle lotte del "biennio rosso" a Bologna, in: AA. VV, Bologna 1920; le origini del fascismo, a cura di Luciano Casali, Cappelli, Bologna 1982, p. 179.

[Dallacasa-1] Brunella Dalla Casa, Composizione di classe, rivendicazioni e professionalità nelle lotte del "biennio rosso" a Bologna, in: AA. VV, Bologna 1920; le origini del fascismo, a cura di Luciano Casali, Cappelli, Bologna 1982, p. 179.

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