Historical Roots of Political Extremism: The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy
The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy and when, for the first time in a generation, Italians were choosing political affiliations and forming political identities.
Fontana, Nicola +2 more
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The Negation of a Negation Fixed in a Form: Luigi Nono and the Italian Counter-culture 1964–1979 [PDF]
My goal in what follows is to trace the role of avant-garde music in the rise and development of the Italian counter-culture from the early 1960s until its destruction at the end of the 1970s.
Murphy, Timothy S.
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Tra autonomismo e Stato democratico: i linguaggi repubblicani in Sicilia (1943-1946)
The emergence of a separatist movement following the Allied landing in Sicily, as well as the existence of an underground paramilitary group (the Esercito Volontario per l’Indipendenza della Sicilia), both contributed to the rise of a “Sicilian Question”,
Andrea MICCIHE'
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The ghost of Machiavelli: An approach to operation Gladio and terrorism in cold war Italy [PDF]
In 1990, a document was made public in Italy that shed new light on the secret aspects of the Cold War in Western Europe. The document, dated 1 June 1959, had been compiled by the Italian military secret service SIFAR and is entitled "The special forces ...
Ganser, Daniele
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Refusing disembodiment: abortion and the paradox of reproductive rights in contemporary Italy [PDF]
Employing insights from Italian sexual difference theory on law and rights, this article examines how both the text of the Italian Abortion Law of 1978 and its operation reveal the contradictions within liberal rights discourse on reproductive freedom ...
Hanafin, Patrick
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Due vie democratiche al socialismo? PCI, PCF e il concetto di nazione tra il 1944 e il 1947
The Italian Communist Party and the French Communist Party, the two most important communist parties in Europe, have histories that seem to run parallel from the end of the Second World War to 1956.
Martina Martignoni è dottoranda alla School of Management – University of Leicester. Si è interessata di storia dei movimenti in Italia e attualmente si occupa di studi postcoloniali.
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French responses to the Prague Spring: connections, (mis)perception and appropriation [PDF]
Looking at the vast literature on the events of 1968 in various European countries, it is striking that the histories of '1968' of the Western and Eastern halves of the continent are largely still written separately.1 Nevertheless, despite the very ...
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«Guarda bene che tu non faccia il primo». Il Pci in provincia di Cuneo e il caso di "Rinascita" (1954-1957) [PDF]
ITIl presente articolo è tratto da un’indagine sull’identità del Partito Comunista Italiano piemontese e sulle strategie politiche attuate dalle otto Federazioni provinciali che lo compongono.
Bergaglio, Cecilia
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Abandon ship? Party brands and politicians’ responses to a political scandal [PDF]
How do politicians react to a political earthquake? In this article, we study politicians’ – rather than voters’ – responses to the main political scandal in Italian recent history (Tangentopoli), and overcome endogeneity concerns by analysing the local ...
Daniele, Gianmarco +2 more
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Pork Barrel Politics in Postwar Italy, 1953–1994 [PDF]
This paper analyzes the political determinants of the distribution of infrastructure expenditures by the Italian government to the country’s 92 provinces between 1953 and 1994.
Golden, Miriam, Picci, Lucio
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