The French and Italian Communist Parties: Comrades and CultureCyrille Guiat uses these two case studies to test empirically the hypothesis found almost universally in the comparative literature. That is, it is generally argued that the French Communist Party (PCF) remained an orthodox, sectarian Leninist party, which aimed at creating a Soviet-style society in France, whereas the former Italian Communist Party (PCI) is depicted as a more moderate party, which rejected the Soviet-style model after the Second World War and embarked on a new strategy, veering towards reformism and social democracy. |
Contents
A Comparative Framework Based | 33 |
Cultural PolicyMaking in French and Italian Municipalities | 46 |
Ideology and Clientelism in the Cultural Policy of the PCF | 85 |
1 Map of the Paris red belt | 86 |
The Cultural Policy of the PCI in Reggio Emilia | 121 |
1 Map of Italy and EmiliaRomagna | 123 |
2 Readership of the Panizzi Library | 130 |
4 Plays staged in Reggio between the late 1950s | 136 |
Conclusion | 176 |
Further Reading | 193 |
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