Italian Communism in the world of the Twentieth Century. Issues, sources, interpretations

The course will treat the history of Italian Communism from an international point of view. Particular attention will be devoted to the topic of internationalism as a political culture, a symbolic system and an identity. Lessons and seminars will investigate in such perspective Communist antifascism, representations and languages of the "European civil war", the project of a mass party after World War Two, the visions of domestic and internazional Cold War, the influences of decolonization and thirdworldism, the transformations connected to Socialist humanism and Europeanism.