
Confronting America
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Brogi shows that the resistance to Americanization was a critical test for the French and Italian communists' own legitimacy and existence. Their anti-Americanism was mostly dogmatic and driven by the Soviet Union, but it was also, at crucial times, subtle and ambivalent, nurturing fascination with the American culture of dissent. The staunchly anticommunist United States, Brogi argues, found a successful balance to fighting the communist threat in France and Italy by employing diplomacy and fostering instances of mild dissent in both countries. Ultimately, both the French and Italian communists failed to adapt to the forces of modernization that stemmed both from indigenous factors and from American influence. Confronting America illuminates the political, diplomatic, economic, and cultural conflicts behind the U.S.-communist confrontation.
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Alessandro Brogi is professor of history at the University of Arkansas and author of two previous books, L'Italia e l'egemonia americana nel Mediterraneo and A Question of Self-Esteem: The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy.
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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE COMMUNISTS AND NATIONAL REBIRTH IN FRANCE AND ITALY, 1944-1946
- 2 CONFRONTING THE COMMUNISTS IN GOVERNMENT: The American Response, 1944-1947
- 3 POLARIZED CONFRONTATION: U.S. Aid and Propaganda versus Cominform in France and Italy, 1947-1950
- 4 COMMUNIST PEACE CAMPAIGNS AND AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE, 1948-1955
- 5 THE CULTURAL COLD WAR AT ITS PEAK: Mass Culture and Intellectuals, 1948-1956
- 6 DIPLOMATIC MANEUVERING: Communist and American Interplay of Foreign and Domestic Policies during the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations
- 7 REDEFINING OPPRESSION: The 1960s, from Affluence to Youth Protest
- 8 REDEFINING INTERDEPENDENCE: The Eurocommunism of the 1970s and the U.S. Response
- EPILOGUE: Cultural and Political Decline
- CONCLUSION
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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