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The Partito Comunist Italiano (Italian Communist Party, PCI) was founded from the left wing of the Italian Socialist Party by Antonio Gramsci, Palmiro Togliatti, and Umberto Terracini in January 1921. The PCI became the second largest political party in Italy and the largest communist party in Western Europe. When Mussolini and the Fascist government outlawed all other political parties in 1926, the PCI went underground and formed an important component of the antifascist resistance in Italy before and during the war. After the war, the PCI joined in the coalition government that administered Italy until May 1947 when it was excluded. Under party leader Togliatti, the PCI distanced itself from the Soviet Union and established itself as the leader of "Eurocommunism" in which Communist principles were adapted to local needs. In 1991, after the fall of communist governments in eastern Europe and decline in support for communism, the PCI renamed itself the Partito Democratico della Sinistra (the Democratic Party of the Left, PDS) to broaden its appeal. (en-US)

Fonte

Zuccotti, Susan. The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, Survival. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. pp. 256-258

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• partiti e movimenti politici - comunisti