The failure of liberalism after the First World War gave birth to its antithesis. The democratic republics formed after the 1919 Treaty of Versailles reverted back into authoritarian regimes: in Hungary Admiral Horthy suppressed Bela Kun’s Soviet revolutionary government; in Spain, Primo de Rivera seized power; and in Portugal, the Republic Succumbed to the dictatorship … Continue reading Mussolini and the Swaying of the Masses