In 1956, 101 Communist intellectuals to dissociate from the support given by Togliatti Soviet intervention in Budapest and sympathize with the Hungarian Revolution in order not to be "the wrong side." It was a gesture of revolt against cultural and political choices that have blocked the development of the Italian left. Fifty years after Valentina Meliadi reconstructs through eyewitness accounts, the passions, hopes and ideas for those involved in the act of breaking. Some of them chose a committed liberal, others continued their activism in the Communist Party, others relocated further to the left. The book published by Editions Liberal includes a frank and irreverent evocation of that season made by Lucio Colletti, who spoke with the author shortly before his death.
Here preface by Renzo Foa.
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