1st Edition

Italian Communist Dissidence and Transnational Trotskyism towards the Fourth International (1928–1938)

By Gabriele Mastrolillo Copyright 2026
270 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Following his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1929, Leon Trotsky promoted the birth of an International Anti-Stalinist Communist movement which considered itself in opposition to the Communist International (Comintern). However, since 1933, it began to regard itself as an independent transnational organization in direct competition with the Comintern. Italian Communist Dissidence and... Read more

Foreword to the English Edition.  Introduction: Historiography and Sources.  Chapter 1: The Italian Communist Dissidence and the Birth of the International Left Opposition (19281930)  Chapter 2: The First Internal Disagreements in the International Left Opposition (19301932)  Chapter 3: The International Left Opposition from the Copenaghen Conference to the "Independentist Turn" (19321933)  Chapter 4: The Internationalist Communist League and the First Steps towards the Fourth International (19331936)  Chapter 5: From the Movement for the Fourth International to the World Party of Socialist Revolution (19361938).  Conclusion.  Appendix

Biography

Gabriele Mastrolillo (PhD in History of Europe, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) is Research Associate in Contemporary History at the University of Trieste, Italy, as well as the Scientific Director of the Regional Institute for the History of Resistance and Contemporary Age in Friuli Venezia Giulia (Irsrec FVG, Trieste). He has written extensively on the history of Italian communism and socialism in the first half of the twentieth century and, notably, on Italian and Transnational Trotskyism.