The Biennio Rosso was a two-year period, between 1919 and 1920, of intense social conflict in Italy, following the First World War. The revolutionary period was followed by the violent reaction of the
Armed workers occupying factories in Milan, September 1920
Factories manned by the Red Guards in 1920
The revolutions of 1917–1923 were a revolutionary wave that included political unrest and armed revolts around the world inspired by the success of the Russian Revolution and disorder created by the a
Biennio Rosso
…study of the period by analyzing newspaper news in the period clearly demonstrates the evolution of violence acts between the social groups involved. Revolutions of 1917–1923 Aftermath of World War I…
Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union and the leader of the Bolshevik party.
Leon Trotsky, founder of the Red Army and a key figure in the October Revolution.
October Revolution in Moscow, Russia (1917).
Statue of a revolutionary soldier; memorial to the German Revolution in Berlin