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• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. The Legacy
• The Burden of Communist Man
• The Gramsci Genome
• 2. A Founding Act: The Salerno Turn
• The Liberation
• The National Unity Governments, 1944–7
• The New Party
• 3. On the Brink of the Third World War
• The Longer Cold War
• The Great Surprise
• The New Cold War
• The Invention of the Atlantic Pact
• 4. The Communists and the New Cold War
• Stalin’s Riposte
• The Cominform Error
• The Hard Years
• 5. The Shock of the Twentieth Congress
• The Beginning of De-Stalinization
• The Twentieth Congress and Khrushchev’s Secret Speech
• Poland or Hungary
• 6. The PCI and De-Stalinization
• Togliatti and the Secret Speech
• The Second Storm
• The Eighth Congress
• 7. The Italian Case
• The Economic Miracle
• The Labour Revival
• 8. The Centre-Left
• 9. The PCI Facing Neocapitalism
• Right and Left
• Tendencies in Neocapitalism
• Development Model and Structural Reforms
• 10. The Eleventh Congress
• The Legitimacy of Dissent
• USSR and China
• 11. Italy’s Long Sixty-Eight
• The Centrality of the Working Class
• Students and Others Around them
• The Vatican Council
• 12. The PCI in 1968
• Prologue
• Prague Remains Alone
• Party and Movements
• Longo, Berlinguer
• The Purge of Il Manifesto
• 13. Towards the Endgame
• The Economic Crisis
• An Unconsummated Marriage
• The First Steps
• 14. Historic Compromise as a Strategy
• 15. From Apogee to Defeat
• The Dilemma of 1976
• The Failure of the Grand Coalition
• Omissions, Silences and Lies
• 16. What Was Brewing in Italy
• The Downward Miracle
• 17. What Was Brewing in the World
• The Last Cold War
• Crisis in the East
• Kissinger, an Evil Genius
• The New Wind from the West
• 18. The Fateful Eighties
• The Second Berlinguer
• The Revival of Class Conflict
• The Moral Question
• The Break
• A Provisional Balance Sheet
• 19. Natta, the Conciliator
• 20. Andropov, Gorbachev, Yeltsin
• Perestroika
• From Gorbachev to Yeltsin
• 21. The End of the PCI
• The Occhetto Operation
• A Surprising Unanimity
• The Bolognina Turn: The Ayes and the Noes
• Three Splits
• Envoi: A New Communist Identity
• Development and Nature
• Abundance and Poverty, Needs and Consumption
• The Question of Work
• The Impotence of the Sovereign
• The Party Form
• Notes
• Index