Gorbachev, Italian Communism and Human Rights: Rethinking Political Culture at the End of the Cold War (Viella Historical Research, 24)

Cucciolla, Riccardo Mario; Fiocco, Gianluca; Pasqualini, Arianna; Pons, Silvio; Roccucci, Adriano

ISBN 10: 8833138666 / ISBN 13: 9788833138664

Published by Viella, 2022

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• Title: Gorbachev, Italian Communism and Human Rights: Rethinking Political Culture at the End of the Cold War (Viella Historical Research, 24)
• Publisher: Viella
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8833138666
• ISBN 13: 9788833138664
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: NEW

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Synopsis

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.