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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... Party's electoral standing ever witnessed . From a mass party that regularly won over 20 per cent at the polls , the PCF progressively lost members and supporters until , in the European elections of June 1984 , it sank to just 11 per ...
... Party's electoral standing ever witnessed . From a mass party that regularly won over 20 per cent at the polls , the PCF progressively lost members and supporters until , in the European elections of June 1984 , it sank to just 11 per ...
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... party ' . According to figures from membership returns , over 40 per cent of the Party's 1.5 million members come from ' proletarian ' backgrounds . However , looked at in another way , these figures show that over half the PCI's ...
... party ' . According to figures from membership returns , over 40 per cent of the Party's 1.5 million members come from ' proletarian ' backgrounds . However , looked at in another way , these figures show that over half the PCI's ...
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... Party's monopoly on power . Equally important , it also represented a fundamental inroad into hitherto sacrosanct communist ideology and a major departure from the Leninist theory of the vanguard party . Once the Party's ' leading role ...
... Party's monopoly on power . Equally important , it also represented a fundamental inroad into hitherto sacrosanct communist ideology and a major departure from the Leninist theory of the vanguard party . Once the Party's ' leading role ...
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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