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Politics and Symbols: The Italian Communist Party and the Fall of Communism Paperback - 1998
by Kertzer, David I
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In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Communist satellites, the Italian Communist Party began a heated two-year struggle over an identity and future. David I. Kertzer tells the riveting story of how Italy's second largest political party transformed itself into the new Democratic Party of the Left.
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- Title Politics and Symbols: The Italian Communist Party and the Fall of Communism
- Author Kertzer, David I
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island
- Date 1998
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0300077246I5N00
- ISBN 9780300077247 / 0300077246
- Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.97 x 5.33 x 0.51 in (20.24 x 13.54 x 1.30 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Dewey Decimal Code 324.245
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Stretching out into the periphery of Bologna, behind the train station, just beyond the old walls of the city, lies the quartiere of Bolognina (little Bologna).
From the rear cover
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 of the conflict brings to life the tactics that party factions employed and the anguish of party members for whom Communism was the core of their identity. Kertzer also tells a larger story from an anthropologist's perspective: the story of the importance of symbols, myths, and rituals in modern politics.