Stalin and Togliatti
Title | Stalin and Togliatti PDF eBook |
Author | Elena Aga Rossi |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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The authors employ previously classified documents in Russian and Italian archives, including reports to Stalin on the virtually daily meetings of Palmiro Togliatti, head of the Italian Communist Party, with Soviet diplomats. This recent, post-revisionist scholarship underscores the role of Stalin's ambitions and their incompatibility with liberal-democratic systems in the development of the Cold War. Stalin and Togliatti come across as shrewd politicians, implacable enemies of the capitalist West, yet acutely aware of the limits of their power.
On Gramsci, and Other Writings
Title | On Gramsci, and Other Writings PDF eBook |
Author | Palmiro Togliatti |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Political Science |
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Palmiro Togliatti
Title | Palmiro Togliatti PDF eBook |
Author | Aldo Agosti |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2008-07-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857715526 |
Palmiro Togliatti could not have become leader of the Italian Communist Party at a more difficult time in the Party's history. In 1926, while he was away from Italy representing the Party in Moscow, Mussolini's Fascist government outlawed the organisation and arrested all the other leading Communists, including Antonio Gramsci, and Togliatti became leader - but at the cost of living in exile for nearly twenty years.Drawing on unprecedented access to private correspondence and newly available archives, this is the first full biography of this important Communist politician and intellectual. Like many successful politicians, Togliatti was a man of contradictions - the dedicated Party man who was also instrumental in creating the constitution of Republican Italy - whose personal charisma and political acumen kept him at the forefront of Italian politics for nearly forty years. Aldo Agosti explores Togliatti's intellectual development; his achievements and his sometimes criminal mistakes as the leading member of the Comintern; his complex relationship with Moscow; and his lasting impact on Italian politics. The result is a meticulous and fascinating life of one of Western Europe's most successful Communist leaders, which at the same time casts fresh light on the internal politics of the Comintern.
Moscow and the Italian Communist Party
Title | Moscow and the Italian Communist Party PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Barth Urban |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Electronic books |
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The Science and Passion of Communism
Title | The Science and Passion of Communism PDF eBook |
Author | Amadeo Bordiga |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2020-08-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9004421653 |
Amadeo Bordiga was one of the greatest figures of the Third Communist International. The Science and Passion of Communism presents his Soviet and internationalist battles in the revolutionary post-WWI period until that against Stalinism, and those in the post-WWII period against the triumphant U.S. capitalism and for an original, updated re-presentation of Marxist critique of political economy.
Stalin and the Fate of Europe
Title | Stalin and the Fate of Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Norman M. Naimark |
Publisher | Belknap Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 067423877X |
It can seem as though the Cold War division of Europe was inevitable. But Stalin was more open to a settlement on the continent than is assumed. In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order, Norman Naimark returns to the four years after WWII to illuminate European leaders' efforts to secure national sovereignty amid dominating powers.
Gramsci Contested: Interpretations, Debates, and Polemics, 1922--2012
Title | Gramsci Contested: Interpretations, Debates, and Polemics, 1922--2012 PDF eBook |
Author | Guido Liguori |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2021-12-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 900450334X |
A major review of all of the many strands of Gramsci interpretation from the earliest writings of his contemporaries through to the academic debates of the 2010s.