Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionary (Verso Modern Classics)
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Giuseppe Fiori (Author) Tom Nairn (Contributor)
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Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in his early thirties, was arrested by Mussolini's police in 1927, and remained imprisoned until shortly before his death ten years later. The posthumous publication of his Prison Notebooks established him as a major thinker whose influence continues to increase.
Fiori's biography enlarges upon the facts of Gramsci's life through personal accounts, and through Gramsci's own writings to relatives and friends. In relating Gramsci's growth as a political leader and theorist to his private experience, it offers acute insights into his involvement in the factory councils movement. It examines his relationship with political opponents, including Mussolini, and with his comrades within the Communist Party before and during Gramsci's imprisonment. It is an approach which seeks to explicate, as well as underscore, the substantial achievement of one of the most important figures in western Marxism.
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Tom Nairn (1932-2023) was one of the UK''s most gifted left-wing thinkers and a towering radical imagination. His books included The Break-Up of Britain, The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy and The Left Against Europe?
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- Contributor: Giuseppe Fiori
- Imprint: Verso Books
- ISBN13: 9780860915331
- Number of Pages: 306
- Packaged Dimensions: 137x218x25mm
- Packaged Weight: 399
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Release Date: 1990-10-17
- Series: Verso Modern Classics
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Tom Nairn (1932-2023) was one of the UK''s most gifted left-wing thinkers and a towering radical imagination. His books included The Break-Up of Britain, The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy and The Left Against Europe?
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