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Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti (Italian: [palˈmiːro toʎˈʎatti] ⓘ; 26 March 1893 – 21 August 1964) was an Italian politician and statesman, leader of Italy's Communist party for nearly forty years, [1] from 1927 until his death. [2]
There was some resistance in the Italian party to the new Third Period line. At first the two Italian ECCI members, Palmiro Togliatti and Angelo Tasca, opposed the Comintern's actions with regard to the German party. However, at the Tenth Plenum in June 1929, Togliatti capitulated to Stalin's wishes while Tasca was expelled.
Whilst the intended purpose of the meeting was to display unity of the world communist movement, the outcome was quite different. [12] In the debates at the meeting Mao argued for a centralized world communist movement whilst the Italian communist leader Palmiro Togliatti argued for decentralization of the world communist movement and autonomy of individual parties. [13]
A Soviet stamp celebrating Palmiro Togliatti. Togliatti has always been appreciated in the Communist International for his diplomatic abilities, Leon Trotsky nicknamed him "The Comintern jurist". [15] The Italian Communist Party, after the rise of fascism, dedicated his agenda in opposing every imperialist and aggressive politics guided by ...
The Italian Communist Party (Italian: Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist and democratic socialist political party in Italy. It was founded in Livorno as the Communist Party of Italy (Italian: Partito Comunista d'Italia, PCd'I) on 21 January 1921, when it seceded from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), [1] under the leadership of Amadeo Bordiga, Antonio Gramsci, and Nicola ...
The 1963 Italian general election was held on Sunday April 28. [1] It was the first election with a fixed number of MPs to be elected, as decided by the second Constitutional Reform in February 1963. [2]
[1] [2] The founder was Palmiro Togliatti, the leader of the PCI. [3] [4] He launched the magazine upon his return to Italy from exile in Moscow. [4] He also edited the magazine until his death in 1964. [4] Rinascita, published on a monthly basis, was headquartered in Rome. [2] It was an official organ of the PCI. [2] [5] [6]
With national elections set for October 1947, the leftist victory in Sicily created speculation that a coalition led by Palmiro Togliatti might bring Italy under communist rule. In Sicily, the leader of the Sicilian branch of the communists, Girolamo Li Causi , pledged to redistribute large land holdings, but to preserve any sized 100 hectares ...