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

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-84394-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Marx and Marxisms

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 Transnational Trotskyism towards the Fourth International (1928-1938) draws from wide-ranging primary and secondary sources, most of which are unpublished, to tell the fascinating unexplored story of the relations between the Italian communist dissidence (Trotskyist and Bordigists), Trotsky, and the International Secretariat (IS), the leading structure of the Trotskyist movement in the 1930s. It focuses on the role played by the two most notable executives of Italian dissident communism, Alfonso Leonetti and Pietro Tresso, who performed key roles inside the IS; consequently, the study of their activity gives us the possibility of following the development of Transnational Trotskyism in the 1930s until the establishment of the Fourth International.

Written for scholars of Italian and International Communism, this book will also appeal to those interested in learning how Italian Trotskyism contributed to the building of a global alternative to Stalinism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mastrolillo, Gabriele

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword to the English Edition.  Introduction: Historiography and Sources.  Chapter 1: The Italian Communist Dissidence and the Birth of the International Left Opposition (1928-1930)  Chapter 2: The First Internal Disagreements in the International Left Opposition (1930-1932)  Chapter 3: The International Left Opposition from the Copenaghen Conference to the ‘Independentist Turn’ (1932-1933)  Chapter 4: The Internationalist Communist League and the First Steps Towards the Fourth International (1933-1936)  Chapter 5: From the Movement for the Fourth International to the World Party of Socialist Revolution (1936-1938). Conclusion. Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

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.