Crispen Shore's work is based on research in the heart of the Communist-governed city of Perugia. He traces major factors which explain the success of the PCI - its disengagement from the Soviet Union, its break with the strictures of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, its development of an independent popular national vision of socialism and the expansive sub-cultural role it has created for itself within Italian society. The book focuses specifically on the PCI's current dilemma, offering both a view of the world and of history from an Italian communist perspective, and an anthropological analysis of that worldview.
- ISBN10 074530334X
- ISBN13 9780745303345
- Publish Date 15 November 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 July 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pluto Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 246
- Language English