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| | Biography of Palmiro Togliatti | Life of Palmiro Togliatti |
 | | Under his leadership the party became the largest Communist Party in the West and a major factor in Italian politics after World War II.Born in Genoa on March 26, 1893, the son of a modest state employee who was highly religious, Palmiro Togliatti was named "Palmiro" after the Palm Sunday that was his birthday. |
 | | These policies, summarized by the term "polycentrism," were adopted by his successors.In August 1964 Togliatti made a last trip to the U.S.S.R., where he was planning to discuss recent developments in the Socialist camp. |
 | | Associated Organizations Further Reading Sources on Togliatti in English are scarce, although some of his major writings have been translated: Palmiro Togliatti, Lectures on Fascism (1976), The Spanish Revolution (1936), The Fight for Peace (1935), Inside Italy (1942), and On Gramsci and Other Writings, edited by Donald Sassoon (1979). |
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