biography
pronunciation:
[tolyahtee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1893–1964)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, born in Genoa, Liguria, NW Italy. He met Gramsci while at university in Turin and they both joined the socialist youth movement. With others he founded L'Ordine Nuovo in 1919 and engineered the split from the PSI (Partito Socialista Italiano) which led to the founding of the Italian Communist Party or PCI (Partito Comunista Italiano) in 1921. He became leader of the party after Gramsci's arrest and became a member of the 3rd International's secretariat in 1934. At this time he formulated his idea of an ‘intermediate objective’ for the working classes of countries under Fascist dictatorship. He believed this could be achieved by working with all other democratic forces. In March 1944, with what was termed the ‘Salerno turn’, he suggested putting aside republicanism and participating in a coalition government. He was deputy prime minister (1944–5) and again leader of the PCI from 1946. Following the DC (Democrazia Cristiana) victory at the polls and an attempt on his life in 1948, he reigned-in party radicals. After 1956 he advocated an Italian way to socialism. |
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