EUROCOMMUNISM IN PCI-CPSU RELATIONS IN THE 1970s-1980s
Journal: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Year: 2022

The article analyzes the relations between the Italian Communist Party and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1970-1980s, when the PCI was the leading force in the newly formed movement - Eurocommunism. The ideological foundations of Eurocommunism, the doctrine of the Italian path to socialism and the historical compromise are considered in comparison with Marxism-Leninism, which at that time was the official ideology in the USSR. The author chronologically lists the stages of the cr