Democratic Centralisms—Plural? A Comparative Analysis of Functional Communism in the French and Italian Communist Party Federations of Var and Gorizia, 1956

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ID12302104
AutoresFiona Haig (0000-0002-1955-3559, University of Portsmouth Centre for European & International Studies Research United Kingdom, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume53
Fascículo1
Páginas27-54
Data de publicação2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCommunist and Post-Communist Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0967-067X • E-ISSN: 1873-6920
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1525/cpcs.2020.53.1.27
OpenAlexW3015320802
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas12

Democratic centralism was the Leninist-Bolshevik pyramidal model of internal organization in operation in all communist parties for most of the 20th century. Thus far, the question of whether it functioned consistently across the non-ruling parties has not been addressed explicitly or systematically. This article examines the implementation of this essential internal dynamic in a French and an Italian communist party federation in the early postwar period. Drawing on new personal testimonies from more than 50 informants, and inedita archival evidence, this analysis reveals not only similarities but also clear functional disparities between the two cases

Centralized government · Communism · Communist state · Democracy · Linguistics · Plural · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy

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