Poker Face
Eric Hobsbawm: Palmiro Togliatti, 8 April 2010
Palmiro Togliatti: A Biography
by Aldo Agosti, translated by Vanna Derosas and Jane Ennis.
Tauris, 339 pp., £51.50,1 84511 726 3 Show More
by Aldo Agosti, translated by Vanna Derosas and Jane Ennis.
Tauris, 339 pp., £51.50,
Il sarto di Ulm: Una possibile storia del PCI
by Lucio Magri.
Il Saggiatore, 454 pp., €21, October 2009,978 88 428 1608 9 Show More
by Lucio Magri.
Il Saggiatore, 454 pp., €21, October 2009,
“... books throw more light on the problem of Western Communism and on Italian Communist history than Aldo Agosti’s revised and updated biography of this remarkable man and political intelligence. The fall of Mussolini in 1943 (to which the anti-Fascists had contributed nothing) found a Communist Party consisting of between three and five thousand men and ... ”
