biography
pronunciation:
[bairlinggair]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1922–84)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, born in Sassari, Sardinia. From his early 20s he devoted himself to making the Italian Communist Party a major force in Italian politics, and became secretary-general (1972). In 1976, under his leadership, it won more than a third of the Chamber of Deputies' seats, prompting him to propose the ‘historic compromise’: an alliance of the Catholics with the Communists. His proposal was rejected, but his vision of ‘Eurocommunism’ had a lasting impact. |
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