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The United States According to the Italian Communist Press (1945-1953)

Unlike the anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism of the Italian fascist regime, the Italian Communist Party's version articulated during the first post-WWII decade has received little attention in both Italian and international historiography.² Yet, it has had a considerable impact on Italian public opinion for the next half century through the communist and communist-influenced mass circulation press, major communist journals and newspapers, such as Rinascita, Società, Il Risorgimento, Il Politecnico, and L'Unità.

After the liberation of Rome, Palmiro Togliatti, the head of the Italian Communist Party (hereafter, PCI), entrusted the task of building the ideology of the partito nuovo to Rinascita, first...