Challenge: maintain Liberal Italy

Your challenge is, without changing Italy's performance in World War I, to avoid both a Fascist and a Communist dictatorship in Italy in the interwar period. You may change the territories awarded to Italy in Versailles, and you may have the Fascists participate, even govern, in Parliament, should you so choose.

Good luck.
 
Well, giving Italy a larger chunk of the Versallies cake, Trentino to be certain, maybe even the Adriatic coastline, would probably take a lot of the fire out of Mussolini's group.
 

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Well, giving Italy a larger chunk of the Versallies cake, Trentino to be certain, maybe even the Adriatic coastline, would probably take a lot of the fire out of Mussolini's group.

Italy got Trentino, my dear fellow, check your maps. :p

Anyway, if Italy had been given Dalmatia in addition to OTL stuff, D'Annunzio's takeover of Fiume would have been very likely butterflied away, which was the template for Mussolini's takeover of Italy.
 
Your challenge is, without changing Italy's performance in World War I, to avoid both a Fascist and a Communist dictatorship in Italy in the interwar period.

Actually this is not really difficult. Simply have Vittorio Emanuele III crush the fascists during the march on Rome (1922). OTL this didn't happen because the king preferred to treat with Mussolini, fearing a possible cop d'etat of the duke of Aosta (allengdly a fascist symphatizer). This fears were completely unfounded.
So, had the king given the order, the troops stationed around Rome could have crushed the fascists without problems. The fascist were lightly armed and they would have had no chance against regular troops. Even if a part of the troops or of the officers turned out to be favourable to the fascist cause, they would have been too few to make any difference.
The outcome would have seen the high exponent of the fascist party tried and incarcerated, the four quadrumvirs hanged, Mussolini fleeing to Switerzland and any officer guilty of even thinking of betraying sent to the most remote corner of Somalia.
From this point Italy could have retained a democratic, even if militaristic and right-leaning, goverment.
 
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