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Stephen Gundle, Between Moscow and Hollywood: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. 269 pp. $64.95 cloth; $21.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2005

Gerd-Rainer Horn
Gerd-Rainer Horn
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
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The Italian Communist Party (PCI) after 1943, writes Stephen Gundle, managed to construct “the last great left-wing subculture in Western Europe” (7). Given the unusual interest in “culture” in the broadest sense of the term exhibited by Palmiro Togliatti, the undisputed key figure in post-war Italian Communist politics, an English-language study of the PCI's cultural policies is thus highly welcome and long overdue. Stephen Gundle manages to present an informative and authoritative account, which is highly recommended for anyone interested in the politics of culture and the culture of politics within the European Left.

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Brief Report
Information
International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 65 , April 2004 , pp. 170 - 173
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© 2004 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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