H-Diplo: H-Diplo Article Review 883 on “Neither for, Nor against Mao: PCI-CCP Interactions and the Normalization of Sino-Italian Relations, 1966-1971.
Journal: ARCA (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Year: 2019

n the academic literature dedicated to the normalization of relations between China and Italy at the end of 1960s, 1 little attention has been dedicated to the role of the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano PCI), which is usually considered a marginal actor in that context.Historians have usually emphasized how, from 1963 on, the Italian Communists' close position to the Soviet Union in the crisis between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Communist Party of the Soviet Union