The unremarkable death of the Italian Communist Party

Bull, MJ

Abstract

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 central and eastern Europe, and the second after. The first proposals, which appeared radical at first, looked modest against the backdrop of what was occurring in central and eastern Europe, and led to a second set of proposals which effectively amounted to a dissolution and then re-founding of the party on a non-communist basis.

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 1991
• Deposit Date: Dec 3, 2019
• Pages: 23-39
• Series Title: Italian Politics: A Review
• Book Title: Italian Politics: A Review
• Publisher URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/45132554
• Related Public URLs: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/series/italian-politics