“We are democrats in that we are not only anti-fascists, but socialists and communists. There is no contradiction between democracy and socialism.”
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Palmiro Togliatti
Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti was an Italian politician and statesman who led the Italian Communist Party for nearly forty years, from 1927 until his death. Born into a middle-class family, Togliatti received an education in law at the University of Turin, later served as an officer and was wounded in World War I, and became a tutor. Described as "severe in approach but extremely popular among…
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politics · Italian politician and statesman (1893–1964) · politician · philosopher · also Palmiro Togliatti, Ercole Ercoli, Mario Correnti, Mario Ercoli, Ercoli M., Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti
Born 26 March 1893 · Died 21 August 1964 · Q310158
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2026· 4 entries
“Between communists and fascists in good faith, are there any possibilities of working together, for the well-being of the Italian people and for the progressive march of our country?”
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“The fascist government, which is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, will have no interest in getting rid of any of the traditional democratic prejudices.”
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“And you, do you expect to make the revolution without knowing the results of Juventus?”
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2024· 3 entries
Blitz quotidiano: Il Pci, Palmiro Togliatti e Enrico Berlinguer, ricordi di Aldo Tortorella: Urss, terrorismo, compromesso storico
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Il Messaggero: Palmiro Togliatti e la "via italiana al socialismo"
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Il Sussidiario: Palmiro Togliatti, chi era il segretario del PCI/ La folle favola con Nilde Iotti: 27anni di differenza…
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2020· 1 entry
Il Sussidiario: Palmiro Togliatti, compagno Nilde Iotti/ Da L’Ordine Nuovo al PCI la vita politica
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2015· 1 entry
Historian Giuseppe Vacca recounted the significant role that Togliatti played in the work of the Constituent Assembly
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2010· 1 entry
“Palmiro Togliatti, Corso sugli avversari, a cura di Francesco M. Biscione, Einaudi, Torino, 2010, p. 3. ISBN 978-88-06-20085-8”
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1997· 1 entry
This view was criticised by Luciano Canfora
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1964· 1 entry
Died 1964-08-21.
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1963· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1963–1964).
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1961· 2 entries
Togliatti said: "We are a party that is on the side of those who fight in defense of their freedom
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“We are a party that is on the side of those who fight in defense of their freedom.”
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1958· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1958–1963).
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1953· 3 entries
Togliatti fought against the Scam Law, an electoral legislation passed by the DC-led majority of the time, which aimed at using first-past-the-post to augment its power
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1953–1958).
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And the Soviet Union had repudiated much of his legacy
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1948· 6 entries
“Our goal is the creation in our country of a free and equal society, in which there is no exploitation by men of other men.”
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A car accident in 1950, and he died in 1964 during a holiday in Crimea on the Black Sea
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Togliatti led the PCI in the first democratic election after World War II
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And reiterated that should the PCI win, the Marshall Plan and other aids could be terminated
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1948–1953).
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“The elections were not free ... Brutal foreign intervention was used consisting of a threat to starve the country by withholding ERP [Marshall Plan] aid if it voted for the Democratic Front ... The menace to use the atom bomb against [pro-FDP] towns or regions.”
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1946· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Constituent Assembly of Italy (1946–1948).
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1945· 1 entry
Career landmark: minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Italy (1945–1946).
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1944· 2 entries
Career landmark: minister without portfolio of the Kingdom of Italy (1944–1944).
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Career landmark: Vicepresident of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Italy (1944–1945).
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1943· 2 entries
And the formation of the Cominform in 1947, Togliatti turned down the post of secretary-general offered to him by Joseph Stalin in 1951, preferring to remain at the head of the PCI, by then the largest Communist party in
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Had an interclassist dimension and was open to "the demands and mental structures of the middle classes"
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1941· 1 entry
“This dictatorship has done something – not just by means of violence. It has done something even for the workers and the young. We cannot deny that the introduction of social security is a fact.”
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1939· 1 entry
Was arrested in France; upon being released, he moved to the Soviet Union and remained there during World War II, broadcasting radio messages on Radio Milano-Libertà to Italy, in which he called for resistance to Nazi
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1936· 1 entry
“We must have the courage to say that we do not intend to overthrow fascism... we want to improve fascism today because we can”
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1935· 2 entries
The party led a campaign against the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
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Under the nom de guerre Ercole Ercoli, he was named member of the secretariat of the Comintern, and he was later involved in the Spanish Civil War
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1930· 1 entry
Togliatti renounced Italian citizenship, and he became a citizen of the Soviet Union; upon his death, a Soviet city was named after him
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1927· 3 entries
Career landmark: general secretary (1927–1934).
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Took the position of secretary of the party
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Togliatti was elected as the party's general-secretary in place of Gramsci
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1926· 2 entries
The PCd'I was made illegal, alongside the other parties, by Benito Mussolini's government
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To the Comintern in which he deplored the opposition led by Leon Trotsky but also underlined some presumed faults of Joseph Stalin
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1924· 2 entries
“fascism gained power by dispersing the proletarians aggregates, preventing their unification on any terrain, and cause a unification around it in favour of the bourgeois political groups.”
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And 1925, the Comintern began a campaign of Bolshevisation that forced each party to conform to the discipline and orders of Moscow
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1923· 2 entries
Some members of the party were arrested and put on trial for alleged conspiracy against the state
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“s intervention on the side of the Entente powers, a minority view among socialists who distinguished, in the words of Battista Santhià,”
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1919· 1 entry
And he was the editor of Il Comunista starting in 1922
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1917· 1 entry
Togliatti was admitted to the official cadet course in Caserta; he passed it but did not obtain the appointment as an officer due to a serious pleurisy that had occurred in the meantime
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1915· 1 entry
Had volunteered for the Red Cross, serving in various hospitals, including at the front
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1914· 1 entry
Togliatti had entered politics by joining the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) prior to the First World War; however, he focused on his studies rather than activism
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1908· 1 entry
Togliatti studied at the Azuni classics high school (classical lyceum) in Sassari, where he was recognised as the best student in the school
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1893· 2 entries
Born 1893-03-26.
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Togliatti was born on 26 March 1893 in Genoa, the capital city of the Italian region of Liguria, in the Kingdom of Italy, into a middle-class family, the third son of two school teachers.
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