Publisher's Synopsis
In most of the world, 1991 will probably be remembered as the year of the Gulf War or the collapse of the Soviet Union. In Italy, it is more likely to be remembered as the year of the agonizing transformation of the Italian Communist Party into the Democratic Party of the Left, as well as the difficult renewal of the CGIL, Italy's largest trade union. It will also be recalled as the year in which Italian citizens, tired of waiting for the parties to deliver long-promised reforms, used a referendum to express an overwhelming vote for change that began to alter the electroral system. Or 1991 could even be remembered as the year of the peaceful but turbulent invasion of the Albanians. These topics and others are analyzed by prominent Italian and foreign researchers in this, the seventh volume of "Italian Politics".;There is both a chronology of events and a documentary appendix which make this a useful reference for students and researchers alike.
