What is it about?
This paper looks at the response of this regional party elite to the Soviet actions, at the reasons for that response, at the fall-out it engendered among the largely Stalinist rank and file, and the way in which the matter was resolved at the regional level and vis-à-vis the national party leadership.
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Why is it important?
Only this federation, located on Italy's north-eastern border with Yugoslavia, flouted the national party line by independently and publicly condemning the interventions whilst reiterating its commitment to a more flexible, more democratic form of communism. This paper scrutinises the empirical evidence in order to explain events.
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It was a privilege for me to gain access to this community of former communists. The informants gave generously of their time, happy that this history would reach a wider audience. They were committed to producing as accurate an historical account as possible. I hope that the reader will find this a useful contribution to our overall understandings of post-war Italian communism.
Dr Fiona Haig
University of Portsmouth
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This page is a summary of: Gorizian heretics of 1956: Euro-communism starts here?, Twentieth Century Communism, August 2016, Lawrence and Wishart,
DOI: 10.3898/175864316815923515.
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