The ‘new beginning’: The Italian communist party under the leadership of Achille Occhetto

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When Achille Occhetto became general secretary of the PCI in the summer of 1988 he inherited a party that was politically isolated at the national level and declining both electorally and organizationally. Occhetto embarked upon a programme of political, ideological and organizational renewal (the so‐called ‘new course’) which sought to reverse the decline and transform the PCI into a party of government. The upheavals in the communist regimes of Eastern Europe accelerated the process of party reform, culminating in the decision of the nineteenth congress (March 1990) to dissolve the PCI and create a new democratic socialist force.

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