1st Edition

Political Enemies in Republican Italy

Edited By Marco Gervasoni, Giovanni Orsina Copyright 2018
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

Political factionalism and ideological polarization have run high in Italian history. They must be taken into account in any attempt to explain the frailty of Italian public institutions – their instability, inefficiency, feeble legitimacy, inability to win citizens’ respect, and subservience to sectional interests. Moreover, Italian politics since the Risorgimento can be interpreted as a 150... Read more

Introduction: Political delegitimation in republican Italy, 1945–2011

Marco Gervasoni and Giovanni Orsina 

1. Antifascism, anticommunism, antipolitics: delegitimation in Berlusconi’s Italy

Giovanni Orsina 

2. The misadventures of socialist anticommunism from the end of the war to the collapse of the Berlin Wall

Marco Gervasoni 

3. Delegitimation and anticommunism in Italian neofascism

Giuseppe Parlato 

4. From enemy to opponent: the politics of delegitimation in the Italian Christian Democratic Party (1945–1992)

Simona Colarizi and Guido Panvini 

5. Delegitimation provided by the constitutional pact in the First Republic

Roberto Chiarini 

6. From political enemy to profane reality: the ‘friend–enemy’ relation in the political ideology of Italian communists

Andrea Guiso

Biography

Marco Gervasoni is full professor of Contemporary History, Università degli Studi del Molise and Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. His latest book is a history of the extreme right in France.

Giovanni Orsina is full professor of Contemporary History, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. His latest book is Berlusconism and Italy. A Historical Interpretation (2014).