Marco Gervasoni is full professor of Contemporary History, Università degli Studi del Molise and Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. His latest book is a history of the extreme right in France.Giovanni Orsina is full professor of Contemporary History, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. His latest book is Berlusconism and Italy. A Historical Interpretation (2014).

• Introduction: Political delegitimation in republican Italy, 1945–2011 Marco Gervasoni and Giovanni Orsina 1. Antifascism, anticommunism, antipolitics: delegitimation in Berlusconi’s Italy Giovanni Orsina 2. The misadventures of socialist anticommunism from the end of the war to the collapse of the Berlin Wall Marco Gervasoni 3. Delegitimation and anticommunism in Italian neofascism Giuseppe Parlato 4. From enemy to opponent: the politics of delegitimation in the Italian Christian Democratic Party (1945–1992) Simona Colarizi and Guido Panvini 5. Delegitimation provided by the constitutional pact in the First Republic Roberto Chiarini 6. From political enemy to profane reality: the ‘friend–enemy’ relation in the political ideology of Italian communists Andrea Guiso

Marco Gervasoni is full professor of Contemporary History, Università degli Studi del Molise and Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. His latest book is a history of the extreme right in France.Giovanni Orsina is full professor of Contemporary History, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. His latest book is Berlusconism and Italy. A Historical Interpretation (2014).

• Introduction: Political delegitimation in republican Italy, 1945–2011 Marco Gervasoni and Giovanni Orsina 1. Antifascism, anticommunism, antipolitics: delegitimation in Berlusconi’s Italy Giovanni Orsina 2. The misadventures of socialist anticommunism from the end of the war to the collapse of the Berlin Wall Marco Gervasoni 3. Delegitimation and anticommunism in Italian neofascism Giuseppe Parlato 4. From enemy to opponent: the politics of delegitimation in the Italian Christian Democratic Party (1945–1992) Simona Colarizi and Guido Panvini 5. Delegitimation provided by the constitutional pact in the First Republic Roberto Chiarini 6. From political enemy to profane reality: the ‘friend–enemy’ relation in the political ideology of Italian communists Andrea Guiso

Marco Gervasoni is full professor of Contemporary History, Università degli Studi del Molise and Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. His latest book is a history of the extreme right in France.Giovanni Orsina is full professor of Contemporary History, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. His latest book is Berlusconism and Italy. A Historical Interpretation (2014).

• Introduction: Political delegitimation in republican Italy, 1945–2011 Marco Gervasoni and Giovanni Orsina 1. Antifascism, anticommunism, antipolitics: delegitimation in Berlusconi’s Italy Giovanni Orsina 2. The misadventures of socialist anticommunism from the end of the war to the collapse of the Berlin Wall Marco Gervasoni 3. Delegitimation and anticommunism in Italian neofascism Giuseppe Parlato 4. From enemy to opponent: the politics of delegitimation in the Italian Christian Democratic Party (1945–1992) Simona Colarizi and Guido Panvini 5. Delegitimation provided by the constitutional pact in the First Republic Roberto Chiarini 6. From political enemy to profane reality: the ‘friend–enemy’ relation in the political ideology of Italian communists Andrea Guiso