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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... reforms in the USSR had isolated the hardline communist regimes of Eastern Europe and given impetus to growing public ... reform of the Party's leadership structure and called for free , multiparty elections for March 1990. Moreover ...
... reforms in the USSR had isolated the hardline communist regimes of Eastern Europe and given impetus to growing public ... reform of the Party's leadership structure and called for free , multiparty elections for March 1990. Moreover ...
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... reforms , both to satisfy industry and benefit the working class . It failed on both counts . One reason for this , apart from the half - hearted support of industry , was that any reform that seemed to threaten the interests of the ...
... reforms , both to satisfy industry and benefit the working class . It failed on both counts . One reason for this , apart from the half - hearted support of industry , was that any reform that seemed to threaten the interests of the ...
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... reform . This anticlerical legacy is reflected superficially in the extraordinary vocabulary of insults against the pope , the Virgin Mary and God which characterises local speech . More importantly , however , it is witnessed in the ...
... reform . This anticlerical legacy is reflected superficially in the extraordinary vocabulary of insults against the pope , the Virgin Mary and God which characterises local speech . More importantly , however , it is witnessed in the ...
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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