Rise and Fall of Communist Parties in France and Italy

Marco Di Maggio is Assistant Professor in Contemporary History at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He focuses his studies on the history of political cultures and political movements in Western Europe. Among his publications are Les intellectuels et la stratégie communiste. Une crise d’hégémonie (1958–1981), (2013), Alla ricerca della Terza Via al Socialismo. I Pc italiano e francese nella crisi del comunismo (1964–1984) (2014) (ed.) Sfumature di Rosso. La Rivoluzione Russa nella politica italiana del Novecento (2017).

• 1. Western Communist Parties and the Crisis of International Communist movement.- 2. New Social Conflicts and the Crisis of Internationalism.- 3. The Arc of Eurocommunism and the Crisis of Communism in France.- 4. The Cultural Disintegration and End of Italian Communism.