Whatever happened to Italian communism? Explaining the dissolution of the largest communist party in the west

Bull, MJ

Abstract

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 itself and become a non-communist party of the left.

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 1998
• Deposit Date: Nov 30, 2011
• Book Title: Italy.
• Keywords: Italian Communist Party; political change
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is a re-publication of an article which was originally published in West European Politics, Vol. 14, No. 4, Oct. 1991, pp. 96-120.