"A highly intelligent, melancholy retrospect on the PCI's eventual self-destruction." -Eric Hobsbawm, London Review of Books
"How should the Left think about the Communist experience today? A founding theorist of Il manifesto reflects on the need for critical examination of the past-and the lessons to be drawn for the future from the Italian Communist Party's trajectory." -New Left Review
"This beautifully written and meticulously researched volume should be of interest to scholars of communism, the European Left, Italy, and the Cold War. Recommended." -Choice