Rise and Fall of the Italian Communist Party

Silvio Pons is Professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, and President of the Gramsci Institute.

• IntroductionPART 1 Genealogies: Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism, 19171. Revolution and Hegemony2. Stalinism and AntifascismPART 2 Influences: Internationalism and the Nation, 19433. The "New Party" and the Cold War4. Polycentrism and DecolonizationPART 3 Transformations: The Twilight of Internationalism, 19645. Humanistic Socialism and the "Long 19686. Europeanisms and GlobalismsEpilogue: The Dream of a New World OrderNotesIndex

"Silvio Pons masterfully surveys how important Italian thinkers and leaders were to the twentieth-century Left, and how broadly influential communism was in global political visions and exchanges. No scholar is better equipped to present Italian communist sources or to explain the complexities of the relationship with Moscow; here that story is valuably contextualized in light of the Italian 'rediscovery' of the decolonizing world."—Molly Tambor, LIU Post "With the translation of this seminal book by one of Italy's leading historians, the English-speaking world now can gain an authoritative understanding of the causes and consequences of the once-mighty Italian Communist Party's momentous demise. Silvio Pons offers a fresh and original interpretation of the three leading protagonists in this epic story: Antonio Gramsci, Palmiro Togliatti, and Enrico Berlinguer."—Richard Drake, University of Montana "As Pons is one of the foremost authorities on 20th-century Eastern European history, this English translation of I comunisti italiani e gli altri will be welcomed by specialists and graduate students alike.... Recommended."—R. T. Ingoglia, CHOICE