Italian Communism: The Escape from Leninism : an Anthropological PerspectiveCrispen 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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79 per cent in the parliamentary elections of March 1986 - its lowest 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 ...
79 per cent in the parliamentary elections of March 1986 - its lowest 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 ...
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Thus , in the mountainous regions of northern and southern Italy , where owner -
operated farms predominate , the DC vote is usually highest and the left - wing
vote lowest . As Guizzardi ( 1976 ) argues , the small - to - middling farm pattern ...
Thus , in the mountainous regions of northern and southern Italy , where owner -
operated farms predominate , the DC vote is usually highest and the left - wing
vote lowest . As Guizzardi ( 1976 ) argues , the small - to - middling farm pattern ...
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The vote was depicted not simply as a ballot for the election of either a DC or
Popular Front government , but as a stark choice between freedom and
dictatorship ; Catholicism and Marxism ; good and evil ; and Christ and Antichrist
( Kogan ...
The vote was depicted not simply as a ballot for the election of either a DC or
Popular Front government , but as a stark choice between freedom and
dictatorship ; Catholicism and Marxism ; good and evil ; and Christ and Antichrist
( Kogan ...
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Contents
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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| Title | Italian Communism: The Escape from Leninism : an Anthropological Perspective |
| Author | Cris Shore |
| Publisher | Pluto Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 074530334X, 9780745303345 |
| Length | 246 pages |
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