Politics and Symbols: The Italian Communist Party and the Fall of Communism

by David I. Kertzer

Book Overview

In the wake of the fall of the Berlin wall, and with the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsing, Italian Communist Party (PCI) head Achille Occhetto shocked his party in 1989 by insisting that the PCI jettison its old name and become something new. This dramatic book tells of the ensuing struggle within the PCI, which at the time was Italy's second-largest party and the most powerful Communist party in the West. David I. Kertzer's vivid depiction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300077246
• ISBN13: 9780300077247
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"