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The letters Antonio Gramsci wrote before his imprisonment in the 1920s are a fascinating record of turbulent times, says John Foster
Antonio Gramsci: A Great & Terrible World — Pre-Prison Letters 1908-1926, by Derek Boothman (Lawrence and Wishart, £25)
In the 1970s, four decades after his death in a fascist prison in 1937, the Italian communist leader Antonio Gramsci became something of a polarising figure in the international communist movement.
Those who wished to promote a specifically “Western” road to socialism sought justification in the voluminous notebooks which Gramsci compiled, under heavy censorship, while in prison.
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