Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Jan 2012)
Pacifismo, frontismo e autonomia: Pertini, il Psi e la “fase calda” della guerra fredda (1945-1950)
Abstract
The history of the Socialist Party (PSI) during the first period of the cold war proceeds alongside the evolution of its connection with the Communist Party (PCI). These ties greatly limited the party’s autonomy up to the 1956. Pertini, one of the most important leaders of the Party, initially tried to mediate between Nenni and Saragat. After the elections of 18 April 1948, however, he embraced the pro-USSR line, in close collaboration with the communists. Only after the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (PCUS) and the beginning of the centre-left government strategy, he abandoned this policy, not without contradictions and second thoughts.