Italian Communist Party
The Italian Communist Party (Italian: Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist and democratic-socialist political party in Italy. It was created in Livorno as the Communist Party of Italy (Italian: Partito Comunista d'Italia, PCd'I) on 21 January 1921, when it seceded from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI),[1] under the leadership of Amadeo Bordiga, Antonio Gramsci, and Nicola Bombacci.[2]
The party became illegal by Italian fascism and worked in secret. It played a major role in the Italian resistance movement.[3]
The party changed its name in 1943. The PCI became the second largest political party of Italy after World War II.[4]
Notes
[change | change source]- ↑ The official change of the party's name to the Italian Communist Party was 15 May 1943.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Cortesi, Luigi (1999). Le origini del PCI: studi e interventi sulla storia del comunismo in Italia. FrancoAngeli. p. 9. ISBN 978-8-8464-1300-0.
- ↑ Mack Smith, Denis (1994). Mussolini. London: Phoenix. p. 312. ISBN 978-1-8579-9240-3.
- ↑ "Partito comunista italiano". Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved 1 February 2023.
- ↑ Sassoon, Donald (2014). Togliatti e il partito di massa (in Italian). Translated by Salvatorelli, Franco; Zippel, Nicola (E-book ed.). Castelvecchi. ISBN 978-8-8682-6482-6.
