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The tailor of Ulm : communism in the twentieth century / Lucio Magri ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Magri, Lucio.
- Standardized Title:
- Il sarto di Ulm. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Partito comunista italiano.
- Communism--Italy--History--20th century.
- Communism.
- History.
- Italy.
- Partito comunista italiano--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 424 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Verso, [2011]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Italian: Il sarto di Ulm, c2009.
- Contents:
- 1 The Legacy 19
- The burden of Communist man 20
- The Gramsci genome 38
- 2 A Founding Act: The Salerno Turn 44
- The Liberation 44
- The national unity governments, 1944-7 52
- The new party 56
- 3 On the Brink of the Third World War 61
- The longer cold war 62
- The great surprise 65
- The new cold war 66
- The invention of the Atlantic pact 72
- 4 The Communists and the New Cold War 79
- Stalin's riposte 79
- The Cominform error 83
- The hard years 89
- 5 The Shock of the Twentieth Congress 102
- The beginning of de-Stalinization 104
- The Twentieth Congress and Khrushchev's Secret Speech 107
- Poland or Hungary 114
- 6 The PCI and De-Stalinization 120
- Togliatti and the Secret Speech 122
- The second storm 128
- The Eighth Congress 133
- 7 The Italian Case 138
- The economic miracle 141
- The labour revival 150
- 8 The Centre-Left 156
- 9 The PCI Facing Neocapitalism 167
- Right and Left 167
- Tendencies in neocapitalism 173
- Development model and structural reforms 176
- 10 The Eleventh Congress 181
- The legitimacy of dissent 181
- USSR and China 188
- 11 Italy's Long Sixty-Eight 195
- The centrality of the working class 197
- Students and others around them 203
- The Vatican Council 214
- 12 The PCI in 1968 220
- Prologue 222
- Prague remains alone 227
- Party and movements 230
- Longo, Berlinguer 235
- The Purge of II Manifesto 237
- 13 Towards the Endgame 244
- The economic crisis 245
- An unconsummated marriage 252
- The first steps 253
- 14 Historic Compromise as a Strategy 259
- 15 From Apogee to Defeat 267
- The dilemma of 1976 270
- Failure of the grand coalition 276
- Omissions, silences and lies 278
- 16 What Was Brewing in Italy 291
- The downward miracle 291
- 17 What Was Brewing in the World 306
- The last cold war 306
- Crisis in the East 309
- Kissinger, an evil genius 311
- The new wind from the West 319
- 18 The Fateful Eighties 324
- The second Berlinguer 326
- The revival of class conflict 328
- The moral question 333
- The break 336
- A provisional balance sheet 341
- 19 Natta, the Conciliator 348
- 20 Andropov, Gorbachev, Yeltsin 356
- Perestroika 358
- From Gorbachev to Yeltsin 363
- 21 The End of the PCI 368
- The Occhetto operation 369
- A surprising unanimity 371
- The Bolognina turn: the ayes and the noes 373
- Three splits 380
- Envoi: A New Communist Identity 385
- Development and nature 392
- Abundance and poverty, needs and consumption 396
- The question of work 401
- The impotence of the sovereign 407
- The party form 419.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781844676989
- 1844676986
- OCLC:
- 760607283
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