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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... domestic factors , including the revival of the socialist parties in Portugal , Spain and France - which occurred largely at the expense of the communists - and international events , particularly the deterioration of East - West ...
... domestic factors , including the revival of the socialist parties in Portugal , Spain and France - which occurred largely at the expense of the communists - and international events , particularly the deterioration of East - West ...
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... domestic conflicts and did nothing to deal with the climate of growing social unrest . Law and order were further weakened , and the liberal state was rapidly disintegrating . During September 1920 the crisis took a new turn with the ...
... domestic conflicts and did nothing to deal with the climate of growing social unrest . Law and order were further weakened , and the liberal state was rapidly disintegrating . During September 1920 the crisis took a new turn with the ...
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... domestic peace will be destroyed by divorce and free love ' - represented as two hideous , writhing serpents ( Romano and Scabello , 1975 : 38 ) . Communists were therefore defined explicitly as exponents of an alien creed , agents of ...
... domestic peace will be destroyed by divorce and free love ' - represented as two hideous , writhing serpents ( Romano and Scabello , 1975 : 38 ) . Communists were therefore defined explicitly as exponents of an alien creed , agents of ...
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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