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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... developed into a more detailed analysis of the political culture of Italian communism as I became more intimately acquainted with several local Party sections and the lives of their members . For 18 months I carried out intensive ...
... developed into a more detailed analysis of the political culture of Italian communism as I became more intimately acquainted with several local Party sections and the lives of their members . For 18 months I carried out intensive ...
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... developed after the war.2 Giulio Andreotti's appointment as prime minister in 1989 marked Italy's 49th ( and Andreotti's fifth ) government since the founding of the Republic in 1947 an average of less than one per year . The problem ...
... developed after the war.2 Giulio Andreotti's appointment as prime minister in 1989 marked Italy's 49th ( and Andreotti's fifth ) government since the founding of the Republic in 1947 an average of less than one per year . The problem ...
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... develop , ' basing them- selves on the great ideas of Marx , Engels , and Lenin , but strictly preserving the ... developed within a typical Marxian - historicist perspective . The whole history of socialism was recast into a new ...
... develop , ' basing them- selves on the great ideas of Marx , Engels , and Lenin , but strictly preserving the ... developed within a typical Marxian - historicist perspective . The whole history of socialism was recast into a new ...
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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