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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... USSR - even the destruction of the Berlin Wall which suggested the possi- bility that the USSR's frontline state and the second most important member of the Warsaw Pact could be reunited with West Germany . The full implica- tions of ...
... USSR - even the destruction of the Berlin Wall which suggested the possi- bility that the USSR's frontline state and the second most important member of the Warsaw Pact could be reunited with West Germany . The full implica- tions of ...
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... USSR is an expansionist country which is a threat to world peace . ' Another 7 per cent went even further and agreed with the proposition that ' the Soviet Union is no longer a socialist country . ' Forty- nine per cent agreed that the USSR ...
... USSR is an expansionist country which is a threat to world peace . ' Another 7 per cent went even further and agreed with the proposition that ' the Soviet Union is no longer a socialist country . ' Forty- nine per cent agreed that the USSR ...
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... USSR during the 1930s and 1940s . Stalin's ' despotism ' , ' megalomania ' and ' self - glorification ' were blamed for the numerous military catastrophes the USSR suffered during the war . Particularly devastating were Khrushchev's ...
... USSR during the 1930s and 1940s . Stalin's ' despotism ' , ' megalomania ' and ' self - glorification ' were blamed for the numerous military catastrophes the USSR suffered during the war . Particularly devastating were Khrushchev's ...
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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