Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches (November 1914 - August 1923)
Benito Mussolini
70 chapters · 12 h 36 min · English
Read by Availle, Craig Campbell, schrm, Adam Bielka, Phantom647, Matt Stevens and others
Literary Collections · Political Science
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Benito Mussolini was an Italian journalist and politician, the leader of the National Fascist Party. He grew up as a violent bully, and the characteristics developed in childhood aided his upward career and later rule in Italy. He was also an excellent orator, and this was one of the qualities that helped him rise to power.
Chapters
1 Introduction. A Note on Italian Fascismo. Manifesto 28 min 2 Part I: Mussolini the ''Socialist''. 25th November 1914 9 min 3 Part II: Mussolini the ''Man of the War''. 13th December 1914 ''For the Liberty of Humanity and the Future of Italy'' 22 min 4 25th January 1915 ''Either War or the End of Italy's Name as a Great Power'' 17 min 5 1st December 1917 ''To the Complete Vanquishing of the Huns'' 9 min 6 24th February 1918 ''No Turning Back!'' 21 min 7 24th May 1918 ''The Fatal Victory'' 25 min 8 8th April 1918 ''In Honour of the American People'' 5 min 9 20th October 1918 ''The League of Nations'' 11 min 10 11th November 1918 ''In Celebration of Victory'' 6 min 11 Part III: Mussolini the ''Fascista Friend of the People'' 20th March 1919 ''Workmen's Rights After the War'' 8 min 12 5th February 1920 ''Sacrifice, Work, and Production'' 8 min 13 24th May 1920 ''We Are Not Against Labour, but Against the Socialist Party, in as far as it Remains Anti-Italian'' 8 min 14 4th April 1921 ''Fascismo's Interests for the Working Classes'' 10 min 15 6th December 1922 ''My Father Was a Blacksmith, and I Have Worked with Him; He Bent Iron, but I have the Harder Task of Bending Souls'' 6 min 16 6th January 1923 ''Labour to Take the First Place in New Italy'' 4 min 17 Part IV: Mussolini the ''Fascista'' 23rd March 1919 - The Three Declarations at the First Fascista Meeting 12 min 18 22nd July 1919 Outline of the Aims and Programme of Fascismo 21 min 19 9th October 1919 Fascismo and the Rights of Victory 11 min 20 20th September 1920 ''The Tasks of Fascismo'' 29 min 21 6th February 1921 ''Fascismo and the Problems of Foreign Policy'' 28 min 22 3rd April 1921 ''How Fascismo was Created'' 19 min 23 20th September 1922 The Italy We Want Within, and Her Foreign Relations 28 min 24 25th September 1922 ''The Piave and Vittorio Veneto Mark the Beginning of New Italy'' 6 min 25 6th October 1922 ''The Fascista Dawning of New Italy'' 20 min 26 26th October 1922 ''The Moment Has Arrived When the Arrow Must Leave the Bow or the Cord Will Break'' 19 min 27 Part V: Mussolini the ''Fascista Member of Parliament'' 21st June 1921 Fascismo and the New Provinces 10 min 28 21st June 1921 The Question of Montenegro's Independence 6 min 29 21st June 1921 D'Annunzio and Fiume 3 min 30 21st June 1921 Italy, Sionism, and the English Mandate in Palestine 4 min 31 21st June 1921 The Attitude of Fascismo towards Communism and Socialism 9 min 32 21st June 1921 The Attitude of Fascismo towards the Popular Party. The Vatican and Social Democracy 6 min 33 Part VI: Mussolini the ''Fascista Prime Minister'' 16th November 1922 A New Cromwell in the Parliament 7 min 34 16th November 1922 The Foreign Policy of the Fascista Government 10 min 35 16th November 1922 The Policy of Fascismo for Italy: Economy, Work and Discipline 9 min 36 27th November 1922 ''Conscientious General Diagnosis of the Conditions of the Country and Its Foreign Policy'' 16 min 37 12th December 1922 ''I Remain the Head of Fascismo, Although the Head of the Italian Government'' 2 min 38 2nd January 1923 ''Our Task in History is to make a United State of the Italian Nation'' 5 min 39 15th January 1923 The Advance in the Ruhr District 8 min 40 19th January 1923 The Government of Speed 3 min 41 23rd January 1923 The March of Events on the Ruhr. The Position of Italy 8 min 42 1st February 1923 The Ruhr, the Conference of Lausanne, and the Port of Memel 6 min 43 6th February 1923 Ratification of the Washington Treaty of Naval Disarmament 3 min 44 6th February 1923 Message from the Hon. Mussolini to the Italians in America upon the Occasion of the Signing of the Convention for the Laying of Cables between Italy and the American Continent 3 min 45 8th February 1923 For the Carrying Out of the Treaty of Rapallo 9 min 46 10th February 1923 The Agreements of Santa Margherita. Italy and Yugoslavia 14 min 47 16th February 1923 Questions of Foreign Policy before the Senate. The Ruhr; Fiume; Zara and Dalmatia 13 min 48 2nd March 1923 Review of European Politics in their Relation with Italy 14 min 49 6th March 1923 Italo-Yugoslav Conference for the Commercial Treaty 2 min 50 7th March 1923 ''History Tells Us that Strict Finance has brought Nations to Security'' 5 min 51 18th March 1923 ''It Is Not the Economic System of Europe Alone that We Have to Restore to Its Full Efficiency'' 6 min 52 29th March 1923 ''Only Those Who Profited by the War Grumbled and Still Grumble, Cursed and Still Curse at the War'' 2 min 53 30th March 1923 ''Patriotism Is Not Formed by Mere Words'' 3 min 54 7th April 1923 Questions of Foreign Policy before the Cabinet 11 min 55 2nd June 1923 ''Mine Is Not a Government which Deceives the People'' 5 min 56 2nd June 1923 ''In Time Past as in Time Present, Woman Had Always a Preponderant Influence in Shaping the Destinies of Humanity'' 8 min 57 3rd June 1923 ''So long as these students and these universities exist, the Nation cannot Perish and become a Slave, because Universities smash Fetters without allowing the Forging of New Ones'' 9 min 58 8th June 1923 Italy's Foreign Policy regarding German Reparations, Hungary, Bulgaria, Austria, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Russia, Poland and other Countries 26 min 59 8th June 1923 ''The Internal Policy'' 34 min 60 10th June 1923 ''As Sardinia has been Great in War, so likewise will she be Great in Peace'' 5 min 61 12th June 1923 ''Men Pass Away, Maybe Governments too, but Italy Lives and Will Never Die'' 5 min 62 13th June 1923 ''Fascismo will bring a Complete Regeneration to Your Land'' 3 min 63 19th June 1923 ''As we have Regained the Mastery of the Air, we do not want the Sea to Imprison Us'' 5 min 64 19th June 1923 ''I Promise You--and God is my Witness--that I shall continue now and always to be a humble servant of our adored Italy'' 3 min 65 25th June 1923 ''The Victory of the Piave was the Deciding Factor of the War'' 9 min 66 28th June 1923 The Relations between Italy and the United States 17 min 67 2nd July 1923 ''The Greatness of the Country will be Achieved by the New Generations'' 4 min 68 3rd July 1923 The Situation on the Ruhr and Other Questions of Foreign Policy 4 min 69 16th July 1923 The Electoral Reform Bill 33 min 70 29th August 1923 The Massacre of the Italian Delegation for the Delimitation of the Greco-Albanian Frontier 4 min
