Poker Face
Eric Hobsbawm: Palmiro Togliatti, 8 April 2010
Palmiro Togliatti: A Biography
by Aldo Agosti, translated by Vanna Derosas and Jane Ennis.
Tauris, 339 pp., £51.50,1 84511 726 3 Show More
by Aldo Agosti, translated by Vanna Derosas and Jane Ennis.
Tauris, 339 pp., £51.50,
Il sarto di Ulm: Una possibile storia del PCI
by Lucio Magri.
Il Saggiatore, 454 pp., €21, October 2009,978 88 428 1608 9 Show More
by Lucio Magri.
Il Saggiatore, 454 pp., €21, October 2009,
“... The history of the 20th-century Communist movements that never acquired state power has been overshadowed by the extraordinary story of the rise and fall or self-transformation of the regimes inspired by the October Revolution. Within little more than 30 years of Lenin’s arrival at the Finland Station, Russia had become a superpower, and one third of humanity was ruled by Communist parties ... ”
