Il Socialismo Democratico Italiano fra la Liberazione e la Legge Truffa

Why did republican Italy not have a social democratic party comparable to those of other European countries? And what was Italian social democracy? What political culture did you express? Who were the carriers? These and other questions he tries to answer this book by analyzing the origins of the Italian Social Democratic Party and its history in the early Republican period (1947–1953). Moving on the double track of political history and the history of political cultures, it reconstructs both the convulsive vicissitudes of the socialist area to the right of the PSI and the evolution of the doctrinal horizons, of the interpretative structures of reality and of the ways of understanding political action that this area expressed, focusing attention on the multiplicity of actors, sensitivities and mentalities that met in it for a brief period. In the background are the cold war and the brutal impact it had on the Italian political system.