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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... August 1989 , 45 years of PUWP rule ended when the Sejm , the lower house of the Polish national assembly , elected as its prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki a leading member of Solidarity – mandating him to form a Solidarity - led ...
... August 1989 , 45 years of PUWP rule ended when the Sejm , the lower house of the Polish national assembly , elected as its prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki a leading member of Solidarity – mandating him to form a Solidarity - led ...
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... August the Czechoslovak Communist Party's initiative toward political reform and democratisation ( Dubček's ' New Course ' ) was pronounced by Moscow a threat to the security of the Warsaw Pact and a danger that was impermissible to the ...
... August the Czechoslovak Communist Party's initiative toward political reform and democratisation ( Dubček's ' New Course ' ) was pronounced by Moscow a threat to the security of the Warsaw Pact and a danger that was impermissible to the ...
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... August 1964 , is often cited , somewhat spuri- ously and overoptimistically , as the beginning of Eurocommunism and of Togliatti's conception of pluralism . It was intended as a long reflection to be presented to Khrushchev as the basis ...
... August 1964 , is often cited , somewhat spuri- ously and overoptimistically , as the beginning of Eurocommunism and of Togliatti's conception of pluralism . It was intended as a long reflection to be presented to Khrushchev as the basis ...
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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