Volume 12, Number 9 · May 8, 1969
A Party Outside Politics
By Denis Mack Smith
Unity in Diversity: Italian Communism and the Communist World
by Donald L.M. Blackmer
MIT, 434 pp., $15.00
Il Bipartitismo Imperfetto: Comunisti e Democristiani in Italia
by Giorgio Galli
Il Mulino, 408 pp., 2500 lire
Peasant Communism in Southern Italy
by Sidney G. Tarrow
Yale, 389 pp., $8.75
The Searchers: Conflict and Communism in an Italian Town
by Belden Paulson, by Athos Ricci
Quadrangle, 360 pp., $6.95
Among the early leaders of the Partito Comunista Italiano, Gramsci and Togliatti are names well known outside Italy. Less familiar is the name of Luigi Longo who now heads the party, and barely known at all is Enrico Berlinguer who will probably succeed Longo in three years. The rhetoric of public pronouncements is not easy to penetrate to assess how or whether the new generation has altered the PCI since Togliatti's death in 1964. Recently, however, there have appeared a few excellent books which, while they do not entirely answer this question, at least explain some of the background to the twelfth party congress which took place a few weeks ago at Bologna.
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