Outputs (4)

Whatever happened to Italian communism? Explaining the dissolution of the largest communist party in the west (1991)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (1991). Whatever happened to Italian communism? Explaining the dissolution of the largest communist party in the west. West European Politics, 14(4), 96-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402389108424878

This article, by analysing three different approaches to west European communism in the political science literature, attempts to explain how and why the largest communist party in the West, the Italian Communist Party, took the decision to dissolve... Read More about Whatever happened to Italian communism? Explaining the dissolution of the largest communist party in the west.

The Italian Communist Party's twentieth congress and the painful birth of the Democratic Party of the left (1991)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (1991). The Italian Communist Party's twentieth congress and the painful birth of the Democratic Party of the left. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 7(2), 257-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279108415087

This article analyses the final congress of the largest communist party in the West (the Italian Communist Party), marking its transformation into the non-communist Democratic Party of the Left. The article analyses the transformation process as well... Read More about The Italian Communist Party's twentieth congress and the painful birth of the Democratic Party of the left.

A new era for the non-rulers too : West European communist parties, Perestroika and the revolution in Eastern Europe (1991)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (1991). A new era for the non-rulers too : West European communist parties, Perestroika and the revolution in Eastern Europe. Politics, 11(1), 17-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9256.1991.tb00188.x

The revolutions in central and eastern Europe have naturally focused attention on the collapse of the ruling parties of these regimes and the regimes themselves. This has tended to overlook the impact of this collapse on the non-ruling communist part... Read More about A new era for the non-rulers too : West European communist parties, Perestroika and the revolution in Eastern Europe.

The unremarkable death of the Italian Communist Party (1991)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (1991). The unremarkable death of the Italian Communist Party. In F. Sabetti, & R. Catanzaro (Eds.), Italian Politics: A Review (23-39). London: Pinter; Bergahn

This chapter analyses the dramatic years of 1988-1989 when the leadership of the Italian Communist Party presented, within a year of each other, two successive proposals to transform itself into a 'new party', the first before the revolutions in cent... Read More about The unremarkable death of the Italian Communist Party.