Italy, Europe, the Left

This is a study of the relationship between the Italian left, the political system of Italy and the process of European integration during the 1980s and 1990s. The book argues and concludes that the transformation of Italian communism was chiefly due to the process of European integration, and not the collapse of Eastern regimes. It concludes that the crisis of the first Italian Republic has a multicausal foundation and that it is not reducible to the economic malaise of the country.