Palmiro Togliatti

Palmiro Togliatti could not have become leader of the Italian Communist Party at a more difficult time in the Party''s history. In 1926, while he was away from Italy representing the Party in Moscow, Mussolini''s Fascist government outlawed the organisation and arrested all the other leading Communists, including Antonio Gramsci, and Togliatti became leader - but at the cost of living in exile for...