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.

Citation

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

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 1991
• Deposit Date: Nov 30, 2011
• Journal: West European Politics
• Print ISSN: 0140-2382
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 96-120
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01402389108424878
• Keywords: Italian Communist Party; political change
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402389108424878
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This article was later re-published in M. Donovan (ed), Italy. Vol. 1 (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1998)