The Rise and Fall of Communist Parties in France and Italy

This book analyzes the dynamics through which the two major communist parties of the capitalist world-which in the 1970s had great influence on their respective national political contexts since the 1980s are increasing their marginality and, although in different forms and with different timeframes are unable to stem the decline of their political and cultural influences on the working classes. Marco Di Maggio is Assistant Professor in Contemporary History at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Autorentext
Marco Di Maggio is Assistant Professor in Contemporary History at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He focuses his studies on the history of political cultures and political movements in Western Europe. Among his publications are Les intellectuels et la stratégie communiste. Une crise d'hégémonie (19581981), (2013), Alla ricerca della Terza Via al Socialismo. I Pc italiano e francese nella crisi del comunismo (19641984) (2014) (ed.) Sfumature di Rosso. La Rivoluzione Russa nella politica italiana del Novecento (2017).

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Western Communist Parties and the Crisis of International Communist movement 1.1 The Internationalism of the Western Communist Parties in the 1960s

1.2 The PCI's Theoretical-Cultural Revision and New Forms of Social Conflict in Italy 1.3 Theoretical Debate or Political Clash?

1.4 The PCF and de-Stalinization

1.5 L'Union des étudiants communistes; Debate and Normalization

1.6 The Intellectuals of the PCF. From Philosophy to Politics

1.7 The PCF's Aggiornamento

Chapter 2. New Social Conflicts and the Crisis of Internationalism 2.1 The PCI and PCF on the Eve of 1968

2.2 The PCI and the Movement of 1968 in Italy

2.3 The PCF and the Movement of May-June 1968 2.4 The PCI and 1968 in France

2.5 The Prague Spring

2.6 Advanced Democracy and National Ways to Socialism 2.7 Dissidents

The Fall of Roger Garaudy

The End of Les Lettres Françaises and Démocratie Nouvelle, the Birth of Politique Aujourd'hui

Luis Althusser and French Communism

The Case of il Manifesto

Chapter 3. The Arc of Eurocommunism and the Crisis of Communism in France

3.1 The New Relationship between the PCI and PCF

3.2 Christine Buci-Gluksmann, Nicos Poulantzas, the Crisis of Marxism and the Problem of Democratic Socialism

3.3 The End of Communist Hegemony on the French Left-Wing

3.4 The Crisis of the PCF

Chapter 4. The Cultural Disintegration and End of Italian Communism

4.1 Anti-Totalitarian Ideology and the October Revolution. The Italian Communists in the Late 1970s.

4.2 Berlinguer's Turn

4.3 An Increasingly Fragile Identity

4.4 After Berlinguer 4.5 The PCI, Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War

4.6 1989

4.7 The End of Italian Communism

Index