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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... movement . By the 1980s all this had changed : cohesion had been replaced by inter- party conflict , the idea of a pan - European communist movement was in terminal decline , and what had been a challenge to the West became increas ...
... movement . By the 1980s all this had changed : cohesion had been replaced by inter- party conflict , the idea of a pan - European communist movement was in terminal decline , and what had been a challenge to the West became increas ...
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... movement . She scathingly condemned the authoritarianism and elitism she foresaw in Lenin's model : The ultra - centralism asked by Lenin is full of the sterile spirit of the overseer . It is not a positive and creative spirit . Lenin's ...
... movement . She scathingly condemned the authoritarianism and elitism she foresaw in Lenin's model : The ultra - centralism asked by Lenin is full of the sterile spirit of the overseer . It is not a positive and creative spirit . Lenin's ...
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The Escape from Leninism : an Anthropological Perspective Cris Shore. revolutionary movement and that movement's ' forward drive ' . The idea behind this was that legitimacy comes from below rather than is imposed from above . As Gramsci ...
The Escape from Leninism : an Anthropological Perspective Cris Shore. revolutionary movement and that movement's ' forward drive ' . The idea behind this was that legitimacy comes from below rather than is imposed from above . As Gramsci ...
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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