Italian Communism: The Escape from Leninism : an Anthropological PerspectivePluto Press, 1990 - 246 pages Crispen Shore's work is based on research in the heart of the Communist-governed city of Perugia. He traces major factors which explain the success of the PCI - its disengagement from the Soviet Union, its break with the strictures of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, its development of an independent popular national vision of socialism and the expansive sub-cultural role it has created for itself within Italian society. |
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... Army veterans returning from the war carried home with them advanced democratic , if not socialist , ideas . In Italy , peasants began to demand a redistribution of land , and the number of workers enrolled in the Confederation of ...
... Army veterans returning from the war carried home with them advanced democratic , if not socialist , ideas . In Italy , peasants began to demand a redistribution of land , and the number of workers enrolled in the Confederation of ...
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... Army was advancing towards Warsaw . Revolutionary prospects looked good . The immediate task to bring about the revolution was to expel the reformists and forge communist parties . As Hoare and Nowell - Smith ( 1971 : lxii ) put it ...
... Army was advancing towards Warsaw . Revolutionary prospects looked good . The immediate task to bring about the revolution was to expel the reformists and forge communist parties . As Hoare and Nowell - Smith ( 1971 : lxii ) put it ...
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... Army would be moving towards the West and invade Italy were widespread . Unemployment was high . The war was not felt to be completely over . Government policy toward communism became increasingly Draconian and repressive . In July 1947 ...
... Army would be moving towards the West and invade Italy were widespread . Unemployment was high . The war was not felt to be completely over . Government policy toward communism became increasingly Draconian and repressive . In July 1947 ...
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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