Continuity and Transformation
Continuity and Transformation

Alternate Visions of Italy’s Three Decades of Détente

Author(s): Laura Fasanaro
Subject(s): Diplomatic history, Political history, International relations/trade, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: Détente;Italy;Italian Communist Party;Cold war;
Summary/Abstract: The question of what East-West détente has meant for middle-sized powers within the Atlantic Alliance in particular remains an open chapter in the history of the Cold War.This chapter analyzes the differences between the détente policies of the government and that of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), from the economic Ostpolitik of the former in the 1960s, championed by both the Christian Democracy Party (DC) and the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), to the ideological challenge of the latter in the 1970s, which eventually culminated in political confrontation between the PCI and Moscow in the1980s.

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