Moscow and the Italian Communist Party : : From Togliatti to Berlinguer / / Joan Urban.
Joan Barth Urban offers an up-to-date account of the largest Communist party in the West and its dealings with Moscow. Drawing on the archives of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and a vast amount of Soviet and Comintern materials, she skillfully reconstructs the history of the Soviet-PCI relations...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1986 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. THE POLITICAL PROFILE OF THE PCI ELITE -- CHAPTER 1. Fascist Rule and the Controversy over Transitional Slogans -- CHAPTER 2. Stalin's Ascendancy and the PCI's "Opportunism of Conciliation" -- PART TWO. THE CLAIMS OF IRON DISCIPLINE, THE CRUCIBLE OF ANTI-FASCISM -- CHAPTER 3. The Price of Commitment -- CHAPTER 4. Popular Front Initiatives, the Great Purge, and the PCI -- CHAPTER 5. The Wartime Resistance: Togliatti, Moscow, and the PCI -- PART THREE. THE PARTITO NUOVO IN THE POSTWAR ERA -- CHAPTER 6. The Post- Fascist Democratic Transition: The PCI between East and West -- CHAPTER 7. The Post-Stalin Challenge to Soviet Centralism -- PART FOUR. THE SOVIET-PCI RIFT -- CHAPTER 8. Conflict and Conciliation during the Compromesso Storico -- CHAPTER 9. The PCI's Challenge to Moscow's Revolutionary Credentials -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY -- INDEX |
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Summary: | Joan Barth Urban offers an up-to-date account of the largest Communist party in the West and its dealings with Moscow. Drawing on the archives of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and a vast amount of Soviet and Comintern materials, she skillfully reconstructs the history of the Soviet-PCI relationship from the ascendancy of Stalin and Palmiro Togliatti in the late 1920s to the post-Brezhnev succession and the 1984 death of Enrico Berlinguer. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501739026 9783110536171 |
DOI: | 10.7591/9781501739026 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Joan Urban. |