Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Achille Conti
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/308
Language Italian Pages 26 P. 148-173 File size 317 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC2025-308007
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The essay analyses the role of pacifism in shaping the identity of post-communist parties in Italy. In particular, it examines the positions of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and the Communist Refoundation Party (Prc) in response to the international crises of the 1990s, such as the Gulf War and Balkan wars. Since the Iraq crisis, the two parties developed different relationships with pacifism, which came to represent a factor of rupture between them. Following the war in Iraq, the Pds supported intervention in the Balkans, in order to legitimise itself as a reliable government force aligned with the Atlantic alliance, while the Prc developed a stance of absolute pacifism, to counter the reformist left as well as to legitimise itself in the eyes of the anti-global movement.
Keywords: Partito della rifondazione comunista, Partito democratico della sinistra, Postcomunisti, Guerra del Golfo, guerre balcaniche, pacifismo
Achille Conti, Tra pacifismo e post comunismo: la sinistra italiana e la guerra (1991-1999) in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 308/2025, pp 148-173, DOI: 10.3280/IC2025-308007