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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Page 65
... peace will be destroyed by divorce and free love ' - represented as two hideous , writhing serpents ( Romano and Scabello , 1975 : 38 ) . Communists were therefore defined explicitly as exponents of an alien creed , agents of Moscow and ...
... peace will be destroyed by divorce and free love ' - represented as two hideous , writhing serpents ( Romano and Scabello , 1975 : 38 ) . Communists were therefore defined explicitly as exponents of an alien creed , agents of Moscow and ...
Page 129
... peace movement and the Cuban Missile crisis : a generation that was openly critical of , if not hostile to , Soviet communism . During the early 1970s there had been a large turnover in Party cadres , which was both cause and ...
... peace movement and the Cuban Missile crisis : a generation that was openly critical of , if not hostile to , Soviet communism . During the early 1970s there had been a large turnover in Party cadres , which was both cause and ...
Page 150
... Peace ' , taught about the rapid social and economic progress achieved in those ' popular democracies liber- ated by the Red Army ' . These courses portrayed the world , in black - and - white terms , as falling into two camps ; ' the ...
... Peace ' , taught about the rapid social and economic progress achieved in those ' popular democracies liber- ated by the Red Army ' . These courses portrayed the world , in black - and - white terms , as falling into two camps ; ' the ...
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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