JW3 Italy Course 17 March

Italy becomes a good European: The 1950s

• The Monarchy: Abdication and Referendum 1945/46

• What sort of Republic? 1946

• End of Empire 1947

• Analysis of General Election 1948

• Recovery of Trieste 1954

• Crisis in Italian Communism 1956/57

• COMMON MARKET: 1957

• Merlin Law!

• The Papacy: Death of Hitler's Pope, Pius XII, and Papacy of John XXIII 1958-63

Another new reference:

A History of Contemporary Italy 1943-88 by Paul Ginsburg