degli strati popolari; delle rivolte contadine; della Prima Internazionale e della costituzione dei fasci operai; della questione romana, risolta con il ricongiungimento di Roma alla monarchia sabauda; della politica antipopolare della destra storica; dell'ascesa della sinistra costituzionale; dello stentato sviluppo del capitalismo industriale; della miseria aggravata dal succedersi delle crisi economiche; e, ancora, del diffondersi del socialismo anarchico, delle repressioni delle agitazioni dei braccianti e degli sfruttati.
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This short film recalls a brief but extremely significant period in Italian history: 1861 to 1866, the first few year of united Italy.
These are the year of the third independence war; of the conquest of the South by the monarchy; of the Southern phenomenon of banditism; of the beginning of emigration towards the Americas; of a tough tax policy against the lower classes and the parents'revolts; of the First International and of the constitution of the workers'Faci; of the Roman question solved by the linking of Rome with the Savoy monarchy ; of the repressive policy enacted by the historical Right; of the rise of a costitutional left; of the slow and painful development of Italian industrial capitalism; of the poverty of large social groups; made even worse by a succession of economic crisis; of the spreading of anarchist socialism; of the repression of the first struggles of the peasants and the exploited. The historical period dealt with by this documentary continues in the following film Cripi's Italy. Chiudi