People of the Revolution and the USSR
Political and party leadership
Background: Italy
The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945
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Vittorio Emanuele Orlando Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Italian prime minister who led the country to victory after Caporetto but failed to win its territorial claims at the peace conference
Political and party leadership · Italy state institutions
1860–1952
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Giacinto Menotti Serrati Giacinto Menotti Serrati
Italian Socialist leader who took his party into the Comintern but refused to expel the reformists, causing the Livorno split of 1921
Political and party leadership · Italian Socialist Party (PSI)
1872–1926
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Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini
The dictator who turned fascism into state power
Political and party leadership · National Fascist Party (PNF)
1883–1945
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Amadeo Bordiga Amadeo Bordiga
The left-communist theorist who rejected parliamentarism and analyzed the USSR as state-capitalist
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI)
1889–1970
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Antonio Gramsci Antonio Gramsci
The brain a prison was meant to stop: theorist of hegemony
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI)
1891–1937
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Dino Grandi Dino Grandi
A Fascist power broker who helped bring down Mussolini
Diplomacy and international organization · Italy state institutions
1895–1988
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Luigi Longo Luigi Longo
'Gallo': commander in Spain and the Resistance, PCI secretary-general who endured Cominform self-criticism and succeeded Togliatti
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI)
1900–1980
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Galeazzo Ciano Galeazzo Ciano
A Fascist diplomat who became a witness to the regime's internal collapse
Diplomacy and international organization · Italy state institutions
1903–1944