Italy in the Cold War: International Framework and Internal Politics from Confrontation to Détente (1943-1978)

From the breakup of the anti-fascist alliance, through centrism and the center-left alliance, to the (politically fraught and only partially realized) “national solidarity” between the DC and PCI in the 1970s, the politics of the Italian Republic largely reflected international Cold War bipolarism.
This volume uses previously unpublished documentation to furnish an extraordinary picture of events, showing how two dimensions – the risks of civil war on the one hand and a tormented constituti...