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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... increased from 250,000 in 1918 to 1,000,000 in 1919. Within the Socialist Party ( PSI ) there coexisted revolutionary and gradualist elements , but by 1919 most of the PSI had abandoned all half - way reformist measures . At a Party ...
... increased from 250,000 in 1918 to 1,000,000 in 1919. Within the Socialist Party ( PSI ) there coexisted revolutionary and gradualist elements , but by 1919 most of the PSI had abandoned all half - way reformist measures . At a Party ...
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... increased throughout the country.46 This culminated in 1969 with the Piazza Fontana bomb incident in Milan , which was to become a symbol of neo - Fascist outrage and government complicity.47 There was even an abortive military coup in ...
... increased throughout the country.46 This culminated in 1969 with the Piazza Fontana bomb incident in Milan , which was to become a symbol of neo - Fascist outrage and government complicity.47 There was even an abortive military coup in ...
Page 108
... increasing pressure from below , did the Party's Central Committee recommend giving the mass membership more say in Party policy . Party leaders continue to speak of ' opening up the Party ' , and to recom- mend more sections for the ...
... increasing pressure from below , did the Party's Central Committee recommend giving the mass membership more say in Party policy . Party leaders continue to speak of ' opening up the Party ' , and to recom- mend more sections for the ...
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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