Stalin and Togliatti : Italy and the origins of the Cold War
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Stalin and Togliatti : Italy and the origins of the Cold War
（Cold War International History Project series）
Woodrow Wilson Center Press , Stanford University Press, c2011
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Stalin e Togliatti
Togliatti e Stalin
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Translation and revision of: Togliatti e Stalin
Uniform title on LC-CIP on t.p. verso: Stalin e Togliatti
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Stalin and Togliatti reveals the dependence of the Italian Communist Party on Soviet decisionmaking in the early Cold War and the willingness of Stalin to sacrifice the interests of the Italian Communist Party to Soviet foreign interests. It explores the connection between the domestic Italian politics and the international affairs during the final phases of the Second World War and in the first years of the Cold War.
The authors employ previously classified documents in Russian and Italian archives, including reports to Stalin on the virtually daily meetings of Palmiro Togliatti, head of the Italian Communist Party, with Soviet diplomats. This recent, post-revisionist scholarship underscores the role of Stalin's ambitions and their incompatibility with liberal-democratic systems in the development of the Cold War. Stalin and Togliatti come out as shrewd politicians, implacable enemies of the capitalist West, yet acutely aware of the limits of their power.
Stalin and Togliatti is a translation and expansion of a prizewinning book published in Italian in 1997 and updated in 2007.
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