Diary of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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Vittorio Vidoli
Diory of the Twentieth Congress
of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
With on inrroducrion by Robert Colodny, Universiry of Pirrsburgh
Translated from rhe Irolion by Nell Corronor and A.M. Elliorr
This is rhe diary of on oursronding irolian communisr end revolurionory who was 0 delegore from rhe Free Ternrory of Tnesre ro rhe epochal Twernrierh Cor~igress of rhe Communisr Parry of rhe Sovier Union held in Moscow in February 1956. Ir was or rhis Congress rnor'Nikiro Khrushchev dromarically denounced Srolin and exposed rne crimes commirred under his rule. In rhis diary Vidoli reveals how rhese breorhroking evenrs offecred borh his Sovier friends and rhe famous figures of rhe revolurionory posr wirh whom he worked in Iroly, rhe Sovier Union, Fronce, America, Spam, Mexico, and elsewhere,- and his reflecrions foreshadow rhe developmenr of o Eurocommunism free from Moscow's dominorion.
Virrorio Vidoli was uniquely siruored ro evoluore ond record rhe... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Vittorio Vidoli
Diory of the Twentieth Congress
of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
With on inrroducrion by Robert Colodny, Universiry of Pirrsburgh
Translated from rhe Irolion by Nell Corronor and A.M. Elliorr
This is rhe diary of on oursronding irolian communisr end revolurionory who was 0 delegore from rhe Free Ternrory of Tnesre ro rhe epochal Twernrierh Cor~igress of rhe Communisr Parry of rhe Sovier Union held in Moscow in February 1956. Ir was or rhis Congress rnor'Nikiro Khrushchev dromarically denounced Srolin and exposed rne crimes commirred under his rule. In rhis diary Vidoli reveals how rhese breorhroking evenrs offecred borh his Sovier friends and rhe famous figures of rhe revolurionory posr wirh whom he worked in Iroly, rhe Sovier Union, Fronce, America, Spam, Mexico, and elsewhere,- and his reflecrions foreshadow rhe developmenr of o Eurocommunism free from Moscow's dominorion.
Virrorio Vidoli was uniquely siruored ro evoluore ond record rhe impressions rhe Congress mode on him and his associores and ro assess rhe impocr of Khrushchev's revelorions rhen and or rhe subsequenr -World Conference of Communisr parries held in rhe fall of 1957, Born in Tnesre, Vidoli became o communisr ofrer rhe Firsr World War Repeatedly orresred for onrifoscisr ocriviries in Iroly and Germany, he lefr illegally for rhe Unired Srores in 1920, only ro be deporred for "subversive acriviry" in 1927, Exile rook him bock ro Europe ond rhe Sovier Union, rhencero France and Mexico, He was o legendär/figure in rhe Spanish Civil War— he was seriously wounded or Madrid in 193Ö — and spenr rhe losr ren years of exile in Mexico, Since rerurning ro Europe ond Triesre in 1947, he has been o depury and a senoror in rhe Irolion porliomenr and 0 member of rhe Cenrrol Commirree of rhe Irolion Communisr Pony Vissza