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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... vote since 1928 and one below that of even the neo - Fascist National Front . -- Similar declines occurred in the other major communist parties . The Spanish Communist Party , for example , dropped to a mere 3.8 per cent of the vote in ...
... vote since 1928 and one below that of even the neo - Fascist National Front . -- Similar declines occurred in the other major communist parties . The Spanish Communist Party , for example , dropped to a mere 3.8 per cent of the vote in ...
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... vote is usually highest and the left - wing vote lowest . As Guizzardi ( 1976 ) argues , the small - to - middling farm pattern was actively promoted by the conservative wing of the Church as the basis for its ideology of ' Rural ...
... vote is usually highest and the left - wing vote lowest . As Guizzardi ( 1976 ) argues , the small - to - middling farm pattern was actively promoted by the conservative wing of the Church as the basis for its ideology of ' Rural ...
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... vote for . What it did instead was to instruct its supporters to ' vote for the Cross ' and support whatever party was closest to Christian and democratic ideals of Italian civilisation . Moreover , the Church's vast network of ...
... vote for . What it did instead was to instruct its supporters to ' vote for the Cross ' and support whatever party was closest to Christian and democratic ideals of Italian civilisation . Moreover , the Church's vast network of ...
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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