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- Title
Unforgettable 1956? The PCI and the Crisis of Communism in Italy.
- Authors
IANDOLO, ALESSANDRO
- Abstract
The Italian left has always perceived 1956 as an extraordinary year, because of the succession of international events that supposedly shocked many Italian militants and convinced them to abandon communism and the Italian Communist Party. On the contrary, this article claims that the real reasons for the crisis of communism in Italy had little to do with international events and must be found instead in the momentous economic and social changes that Italy was experiencing at the time. Unforgettable 1956 was therefore only a moment in a longer-term process that was destined to change communism in Italy. The article is based on previously unused documents now available at the Italian Communist Party Archive.
- Subjects
ITALY; COMMUNISM; HISTORY of communist parties; PARTITO Comunista Italiano; ITALIAN politics &; government, 1945-1976; ECONOMIC conditions in Italy, 1945-1976; RIGHT &; left (Political science); HISTORY of communism
- Publication
Contemporary European History, 2014, Vol 23, Issue 2, p259
- ISSN
0960-7773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0960777314000046