Editor(s): Alessandro Barile
More than a hundred years after its foundation, and over thirty years since its dissolution, the Italian Communist Party continues to fuel the interest of historical research. The study of the PCI thus becomes a way of observing the history of Italy in the second half of the twentieth century during its critical moments: the pervasive ideological conflict, the tortuous yet effective nationalisation of the masses, unfinished reformism, industrial modernisation, and political deadlock are issues that retain their intellectual vitality, partly due to the unique originality of Italian communism, which, in the end, was also an “unfinished communism.” Through a series of studies on the party’s political culture and its intersection with its cultural policy, this book aims to reconstruct the distinctive “war of position” that the new Togliattian party built over the thirty years following Liberation, until – that is – the multiple contradictions opened up by the “economic boom” erupted in a clash with an “alternative communism,” that of the mobilisation of the 1970s.
Publisher: FrancoAngeli
Year: 2024
