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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... held at which Imre Nagy , the Hungarian prime minister at the time of the 1956 uprising who had been convicted of treason and hanged , was formally rehabilitated and reburied . More dramatic still , the new Politburo of the ruling ...
... held at which Imre Nagy , the Hungarian prime minister at the time of the 1956 uprising who had been convicted of treason and hanged , was formally rehabilitated and reburied . More dramatic still , the new Politburo of the ruling ...
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... held by the older generation of Party leaders , saw post- war reconstruction in terms of intermediate political goals and structural reforms ( Togliatti's ' progressive democracy ' ) ; the other held that Togliatti's strategy was ...
... held by the older generation of Party leaders , saw post- war reconstruction in terms of intermediate political goals and structural reforms ( Togliatti's ' progressive democracy ' ) ; the other held that Togliatti's strategy was ...
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... held so that members could air their views on the latest Party document and the Cossutta critique . These debates were important not only to those who attended , but to the future of the PCI itself , as it shifted toward a new defini ...
... held so that members could air their views on the latest Party document and the Cossutta critique . These debates were important not only to those who attended , but to the future of the PCI itself , as it shifted toward a new defini ...
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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