The Rise And Fall Of Communist Parties In France And Italy: Entangled Historical Approaches

Titles Published......Page 7
 Titles Forthcoming......Page 9
 Preface......Page 12
 Acknowledgments......Page 21
 Contents......Page 22
1.1 The Internationalism of the Western Communist Parties in the 1960s......Page 24
1.2 The PCI’s Theoretical-Cultural Revision and New Forms of Social Conflict in Italy......Page 37
1.3 Theoretical Debate or Political Clash?......Page 49
1.4 The PCF and De-stalinization......Page 57
1.5 L’Union Des étudiants Communistes; Debate and Normalization......Page 61
1.6 The Intellectuals of the PCF: From Philosophy to Politics......Page 73
1.7 The PCF’s Aggiornamento......Page 91
2.1 The PCI and PCF on the Eve of 1968......Page 113
2.2 The PCI and the Movement of 1968 in Italy......Page 119
2.3 The PCF and the Movement of May–June 1968......Page 124
2.4 The PCI and 1968 in France......Page 130
2.5 The Prague Spring......Page 135
2.6 “Advanced Democracy” and National Ways to Socialism......Page 142
2.8 The Fall of Roger Garaudy......Page 153
2.9 The End of Les Lettres Françaises and Democratie Nouvelle, the Birth of Politique Aujourd’hui......Page 156
2.10 Luis Althusser and French Communism......Page 162
2.11 The Case of Il Manifesto......Page 166
3.1 The New Relationship Between the PCI and PCF......Page 178
3.1.1 Eurocommunism......Page 182
3.2 Christine Buci-Gluksmann, Nicos Poulantzas, the Crisis of Marxism and the Problem of “Democratic Socialism”......Page 189
3.3 The End of Communist Hegemony on the French Left-Wing......Page 204
3.4 The Crisis of the PCF......Page 219
4.1 Anti-totalitarian Ideology and the October Revolution: The Italian Communists in the Late 1970s......Page 232
4.1.1 Berlinguer’s “Turn”......Page 243
4.2 An Increasingly Fragile Identity......Page 248
4.2.1 After Berlinguer......Page 252
4.3 The PCI, Gorbachev, and the End of the Cold War......Page 266
4.4 1989......Page 281
4.5 The End of Italian Communism......Page 288
Index......Page 299