CLAUDIA VICINELLI

I commenti della stampa britannica sulla "svolta" del Pci

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Maggio-Agosto 2006

Anno LXXI    n. 2

Summary. – This study has pursued a double aim: in primis, to value if – abroad, in this case in Great Britain – an important part of italian politics, has been followed with the due attention, or indeed, to provide an entity of the interest of the british world for the long process of autoreform of the Italian Communist Party under Achille Occhetto secretary. The second aim is to value the reaction of the english observers to the transformation of the biggest and strategically most important West communist party. It’s necessary to specify that the present research is not a simple historiographycal reconstruction of the PCI “svolta”, but it represents a work of translation, selection and analysis of the british publications about PCI politics’ delicate phase. With this aim, were examinated all the authors of the british world who were able to offer a significant contribution about this subject. All the material is constituted by essaies of british authors who carried out an analysis about the crisis of the ’89 in the East Europe and of its repercussions on the PCI as well. So, the following five paragraphes rebuild the transformation of the Pci through the narration, the analysis and the comments of the English observers concerning the premisises, and the reasons of Achille Occhetto’s choise to dissolve his own party; the phase of the rise up of Occhetto to the Secretary on the background of Gorbachev politics and of ’89 revolution in the East Europe; the Rimini Congress, and the comments and the prospectives for the party’s future. All the material was found in the main libraries of London humanistic Faculties and in other important Historical Institutes like the Institute of Strategic Studies and the School of Slavonic and West European Studies, and in some of the most important book shops of the English capital, but for a large part it comes from London School of Economics.