The essay focuses on the internal debate within the largest Italian trade union (CGIL) around the Polish Solidarnosc affair. Fitting into the framework of a broader reflection on the links between Italian intellectuals and the Cold War, the study examines the attitude within the CGIL Research Office towards the events that occurred in Poland at the beginning of the 1980s . What emerges is a picture of substantial underestimation of events, in the belief, later revealed to be incorrect, that the socialist system could be reformed. On the other hand, within the union there was no shortage of critical voices, more willing to consider a complete break with the Soviet model.
Solidarity and Italian Labor Movement Culture: CGIL Intellectuals and Revision of the CGIL’s International Relations (1980–1982)
Enrico Serventi Longhi
2019-01-01
Abstract
The essay focuses on the internal debate within the largest Italian trade union (CGIL) around the Polish Solidarnosc affair. Fitting into the framework of a broader reflection on the links between Italian intellectuals and the Cold War, the study examines the attitude within the CGIL Research Office towards the events that occurred in Poland at the beginning of the 1980s . What emerges is a picture of substantial underestimation of events, in the belief, later revealed to be incorrect, that the socialist system could be reformed. On the other hand, within the union there was no shortage of critical voices, more willing to consider a complete break with the Soviet model.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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