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Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction BETWEEN HOLLYWOODAND MOSCOW Politics, culture and society after the fall of FascismTogliatti and the strategy of the PCI; The premises of hegemony; Resistance,liberation and the battle for a 'New Culture'; Political alliances andcultural policy; The cultural impact of America; The popular culturalalternative BREAD, LOVE AND POLITICAL STRIFE Cold War communism and thedevelopment of cultural policy Catholics, culture and society; The PCI andthe 'Battle of Ideas'; Left-wing popular culture between folklore andHollywood; Communist morality and mass audiences WHAT'S GOOD FOR FIAT ISGOOD FOR ITALY Television, consumerism and party identity in the 1950sEconomic development and cultural change; 1956 and beyond; Against capitalistmodernity; Party culture, popular culture, mass culture; Leisure and socialintegration FROM ELVIS PRESLEY TO HO CHI MINH Youth culture and culturalconflict between the centre left and the hot autumn Youth culture andpolitical socialization; Diversification on the left; Crisis and transitionin cultural policy' 1967-69: Social movements and culture: The politicalresponse of the PCI CRISIS, AUSTERIUTY, SOLIDARITY The question of hegemonyin the 1970s Modernisation, Marxism and the intellectuals; Reaching forhegemony: California dreaming: Youth culture in the 1970s; Nationalsolidarity, 1976-79 WELCOME TO PROSPERITY Economic growth and the erosionof left-wing culture The second economic miracle; The PCI after the historiccompromise; Adapting to mass communications; The 'Roman Summers' and there-invention of cultural policy; The crumbling of an old cultural model THELAST TANGO The collapse of Communism and the dissolution of the PCI A partyin crisis; Cultures of disintegration; The drama of 1989-91 CONCLUSION