The book is a political biography. In connection with the evolution of Mussolini's ideas and political views, the author presents the entire intellectual, social and political life of Italy at the time, as well as the Hungarian relations of this political activity and involvement between the two world wars. Mussolini's career and fall were inseparable from the advance and subsequent failure of Italian fascism. Nevertheless, recalling it is still interesting and instructive today.
Benito Mussolini was born on July 23, 1883, in the village of Dovio in the Romagna province of Italy, as the first son of a village blacksmith. His father was an active local organizer of the socialist party, and Benito was also inspired by socialist ideals in his youth. After that, there were frequent changes in his views and life path. As the author writes: "Mussolini was an anarchist-syndicalist, National-Socialist agitator, fascist party leader, putschist, dictator, puppet head of state."
Mária Ormos guides Mussolini's forty-volume works, reminiscences about him, and very rich historical and biographical literature, throughout this varied life journey full of twists and turns until April 28, 1945. On this day, the death sentence of Mussolini was carried out, which was pronounced by the fighters of the anti-fascist resistance against the fascist leader who was pushing the country into destruction.