Moscow and the Italian Communist Party : : From Togliatti to Berlinguer / / Joan Urban.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Urban, Joan,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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