"A highly intelligent, melancholy retrospect on the PCI's eventual self-destruction."
–Eric Hobsbawm, London Review of Books
"How should the Left think about the Communist experience today? A founding theorist of
Il manifesto reflects on the need for critical examination of the past-and the lessons to be drawn for the future from the Italian Communist Party's trajectory."
–New Left Review "This beautifully written and meticulously researched volume should be of interest to scholars of communism, the European Left, Italy, and the Cold War. Recommended."
–Choice