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| Part of the Revolutions of 1917–23 | |||
 Armed workers occupying factories in Milan, September 1920 | |||
| Date | 1919–1920 | ||
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| 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. | ||
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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.