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The article provides information on the political history of Italy. On October 29, 1922 Benito Mussolini was appointed as the 30th Prime Minister of the liberal democratic Italian State. For most historians, the crucial factors behind Mussolini's rise to power may be found in the peculiar circumstances of postwar Italy's chaotic socio-political atmosphere. On October 16, 1922, six of the Fascist Ras leadership convinced Mussolini that, in the tradition of Garibaldian revolutionaries, the time was right to take power.