European Theater - World War II - Resistance, Italian History - 1922 - 1945 (Fascist Era & World War II), Labor Studies - General & Miscellaneous, Communist Parties & Movements, Working Class, Radical Thought, Fascism - General & Miscellaneous

The Long Awaited Moment

Name: The Long Awaited Moment
Author: Tom Behan
ISBN: 9780820426747

by Tom Behan

Available on Bookshop Write a review

Books.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.

Overview

This book describes the activities and political development of industrial workers in the Porta Romana area of Milan during the 1940s. The main focus of discussion is the extent of working class allegiance to the Italian Communist Party, which the author argues was generally more apparent than real. Through the use of unpublished archive material and oral sources, the author argues that many workers possessed a more radical consciousness than that of Communist leaders: the desire for The Long Awaited Moment of an insurrectionary seizure of power. Although this current of working class thought is acknowledged as having existed during the Resistance period of 1943-45, up until now its existence has been denied as regards the immediate postwar years.

Reviews

There are no reviews yet. Log in to write one.

Editorials

Booknews

A description of the political development of the PCI workers' party in the "Porta Romana" area of Milan during the 1940s emphasizing the struggle between workers' expectations and external political sources. Behan (U. of Kent, Canterbury) brings forward unpublished archive material and interviews to argue that workers, trained in the Resistance, possessed a more radical consciousness than that of the Communist leaders leading to the failure of the revolution of 1948. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.