Italian Communist Dissidence and Transnational Trotskyism Towards - the Fourth International 19281938

This book draws from wide-ranging sources to examine the relations between Italian communist dissidence, Trotsky, and the International Secretariat. By focusing on two notable executives of Italian dissident communism, Alfonso Leonetti and Pietro Tresso, this book explores Transnational Trotskyism in the 1930s.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriele Mastrolillo
• Assisted by: Gabriele Mastrolillo (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 08.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032843940
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3284394-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Marx and Marxisms
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Italy, General & world history, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Revolutionary groups & movements, Far-left political ideologies and movements, General and world history, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Marxism & Communism, Revolutionary groups and movements