TOGLIATTI, PALMIRO


Meaning of TOGLIATTI, PALMIRO in English

born March 26, 1893, Genoa

died Aug. 21, 1964, Yalta, Ukraine, U.S.S.R.

Italian communist leader.

After serving in World War I, in 1919 he helped found the left-wing weekly L'Ordine Nuovo ("New Order"), which became a rallying point for the breakaway communist wing of the Socialist Party (1921). He edited the Communist Party newspaper and was a member of the party's central committee from 1924. He was in Moscow when the party was banned in Italy (1926); he remained in exile and became a member of the Comintern secretariat (1935). He returned to Italy in 1944 and served in a coalition government as vice premier (1945). He advocated a national, democratically oriented form of communism and made the Italian Communist Party the largest in western Europe. See also Democratic Party of the Left .

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