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THE TAILOR OF ULM: COMMUNISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
By LUCIO MAGRI
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In memory of LUCIO MAGRI:
It is our sad duty to announce the passing of Lucio Magri, one of the foremost Italian left-wing intellectuals:
http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/819-lucio-magri-1932-2011
Visit the Verso blog to read the tributes by Luciana Castellina and Valentino Parlato:
http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/822-his-gravest-sin-leaving-this-way
http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/821-continuons-le-combat-valentino-parlato-on-lucio-magri
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Twenty years have passed since the Italian Communists' last Congress in 1991, in which the death of their party was decreed. It was a deliberate death, accelerated by the desire for a “new beginning.” That new beginning never came. in its place is the loss of one of the world's most complex political, organizational and theoretical heritages.
In this detailed and probing work, Lucio Magri, one of the towering intellectual figures of the Italian Left, assesses the causes for the demise of what was once one of the most powerful and vibrant communist parties of the West. The PCI marked almost a century of Italian history, from its founding in 1921 to the partisan resistance, the turning point of Salerno in 1944 to the de-Stalinization of 1956, the long '68 to the historic compromise, and to the opportunity—missed forever—of democratic transformation.
With rigor and passion, THE TAILOR OF ULM merges an original and enlightening interpretation of Italian communism with the experience of a militant “heretic” into a riveting read-capable of broadening our insights into contemporary Italy, and the twentieth-century communist experience.
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Praise for THE TAILOR OF ULM:
“The decline and fall [of Italian Communism] is the subject of Magri's extremely shrewd and despondent book ... the final cry of someone whose life belongs to a world that has gone for ever.” – ERIC HOBSBAWM, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/11/30/the-editors/lucio-magri/
“How should the Left think about the Communist experience today? A founding theorist of IL MANIFESTO reflects on the need for critical examination of the past – and the lessons to be drawn for the future from the Italian Communist Party’s trajectory” – NEW LEFT REVIEW
“One of the most significant and important books … on the history of communism during the 20th century” – MORNING STAR
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LUCIO MAGRI joined the Italian Communist Party in the mid 1950s. In 1969, he was expelled from the PCI along with the group of dissidents who had founded the journal IL MANIFESTO. Active in the Independent Left and the peace movement over the next two decades, Magri became one of the leaders of Rifondazione Comunista in 1991 and the editor of LA RIVISTA DEL MANIFESTO.
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ISBN: 978 1 84467 698 9 / $59.95/£30/75$CAN / Hardback / 448 pages
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