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
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Revolutions of 1917–1923
1917
Russian Revolution
Pistolerismo
French Army mutinies
Potato riots
Conscription disturbance at the Brisbane School of Arts
Australian general strike
Étaples mutiny
Brazil strike movement
1918
Austro-Hungarian strike
German strike of January
Finnish Civil War
Cattaro mutiny
Arab Revolt
Rice riots
British police strikes
Canadian Labour Revolt
German Revolution
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Red Week
Egyptian Revolution
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Darwin rebellion
Greater Poland uprising
1919
Biennio Rosso
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Irish War of Independence
First Red Scare
Battle of George Square
La Canadenca strike
Kinmel Park mutiny
March 1st Movement
May Fourth Movement
Turkish War of Independence
Sette Giugno
Epsom riot
Luton Peace Day Riots
1920
Ruhr uprising
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Patagonia Rebelde
1921
Mongolian Revolution
March Action
Uprising in West Hungary
Rand Rebellion
1923
September Uprising
German October
Hamburg Uprising
Kraków riot
Factories manned by the Red Guards in 1920
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.
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