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Gorbachev, Italian Communism and Human Rights: Rethinking Political Culture at the End of the Cold War

Gorbachev, Italian Communism and Human Rights: Rethinking Political Culture at the End of the Cold War

Cucciolla, Riccardo Mario
Fiocco, Gianluca
Pasqualini, Arianna

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Series: Viella Historical Research, Book 24

General World HistoryItalian HistorySocial Movements

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ISBN10: 8833138666
ISBN13: 9788833138664
Publisher: Viella
Published: Dec 1 2022
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
The chapters brought together in this volume build on the idea that in the 1970s-1980s the global language of human rights contributed to stimulating ideas of reform in the communist world. The protagonists were Mikhail Gorbachev and the Italian communists. The experience of the PCI was in many ways a peculiar case, but one that was linked to underground ideas of cultural change even in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Gorbachev's ascent signalled a fundamental shift, as he rejected the approach of reducing human rights to an ideological battleground and instead made it the centrepiece of a universalist relaunch. By exploring the encounter between reform communists and human rights, the authors reconstruct the metamorphosis and the end of communism within the context of the wider transformations taking place in European political cultures at the end of the Cold War.

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