A History of a Missed Encounter: Mitterrand’s Socialist Party and Berlinguer’s Pci

Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Marco Di Maggio
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/282
Language Italian Pages 27 P. 141-167 File size 204 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC2016-282007
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This essay revisits the trajectory of the relations between Psf and Pci. It comprises their relations during the leadership of Enrico Berlinguer and François Mitterrand and the first four years in which the latter held the presidency of France. The opinions on the Pci open up an interesting perspective to understand how Mitterand’s party fights for the hegemony within the nation’s left during the 1970s, and to define how - after the victory in the 1981 elections - it strategically and culturally revisits its new role in government. The analysis of the relations between both parties constitutes a specific point of view on the foreign policy of the Pci both towards parties of the Socialist International and the communist parties of Western Europe.

Keywords: French Socialist Party, Italian Communist Party, 1970s, 1980s, European Left, Eurocommunism

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Marco Di Maggio, Storia di un incontro mancato: il Partito socialista di Mitterrand e il Pci di Berlinguer in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 282/2016, pp 141-167, DOI: 10.3280/IC2016-282007