Reference no: EM133399773
Assignment:
With reference to its origin, purpose and content, analyse the value and limitations of Source A for historians studying Mussolini's Italy in the 1920s.
Source A:
Antonio Cippico, Italian politician and writer, in his book of lectures, Italy: The central problem of the Mediterranean (1926)
During 1920 there took place in Italy 1,881 industrial strikes and 189 agricultural strikes ... During 1923, the first year of the Fascist régime, industrial strikes were reduced to 200 ... In December, 1921, there were 541,000 unemployed; in October 1924, this had fallen to 117,000... The new Fascist government had the task of restoring order where the maddest anarchy reigned; of giving back to the citizens security for life and property of governments, of parliaments, and sometimes of magistrates ... A really immense undertaking which Fascism, in the two and a half years that it has been in power, has almost accomplished. It is rare in the history of civilized nations, and has never before occurred in that of Italy, that a government has achieved so much in so short a time.