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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Urban, Joan, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1. Fascist Rule and the Controversy over Transitional Slogans

CHAPTER 2. Stalin's Ascendancy and the PCI's "Opportunism of Conciliation"

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

CHAPTER 6. The Post- Fascist Democratic Transition: The PCI between East and West

CHAPTER 7. The Post-Stalin Challenge to Soviet Centralism

CHAPTER 8. Conflict and Conciliation during the Compromesso Storico

CHAPTER 9. The PCI's Challenge to Moscow's Revolutionary Credentials

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3902-6

OCLC:

1178768874