Why was Mussolini able to rise to power and what was his continued basis for support?

Italy, the recently unified country of the 1920s, was in a very trying period of politics after the culmination of the First World War. Only one sole leader managed to emerge from this period establishing himself as "Il Duce" and making Italy very much a personal empire. This man was Benito Mussolini. Though, before the assuming of the glorious portrayed figure that he created he was very much a normal personality and in this essay …

…stir the youth allowing Mussolini to utilise this to keep hold of his power. Therefore, in conclusion Mussolini's rise to power was a road that had no other ends due to the present circumstances of the time. His continued basis for support relied mainly on the eradication of opposition and the usage of propaganda. It can be justly said that Mussolini was the first dictator to successfully establish and maintain power in the 21st Century.