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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... dominant expression of Catholic identity in Italy . Most of this anticommunist symbolism was drawn from the apocalyptic scenes in the Book of Revelation , but it was supplemented by psychological motifs suggesting an association between ...
... dominant expression of Catholic identity in Italy . Most of this anticommunist symbolism was drawn from the apocalyptic scenes in the Book of Revelation , but it was supplemented by psychological motifs suggesting an association between ...
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... dominant political force is social status . According to Kertzer's ( 1980 : 62 ) case - study of a working - class community in Bologna , PCI membership is a ' key to in - group status ' and a mark of prestige . Indeed , in this case ...
... dominant political force is social status . According to Kertzer's ( 1980 : 62 ) case - study of a working - class community in Bologna , PCI membership is a ' key to in - group status ' and a mark of prestige . Indeed , in this case ...
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... dominant ideology within it . The constitution became the symbolic embodiment of the progressive goals of the Resistance and a new basis for interclass unity . In Amyot's ( 1981 : 26-7 ) words , The culminating point of this historical ...
... dominant ideology within it . The constitution became the symbolic embodiment of the progressive goals of the Resistance and a new basis for interclass unity . In Amyot's ( 1981 : 26-7 ) words , The culminating point of this historical ...
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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