Preview	Issue Date	Title	Author(s)
	2019	From Class to Culture: Reconfigurations of Vietnamese Communism (1925-2015)	Pelley, Patricia
	2019	Ideology and Discourse: Rhetorical Construction of Mao Zedong’s ‘New Communist Person’ (1949-1976)	Lu, Xing
	2019	The Power of Words: Labels and their Consequences in Mao’s China (1949-1976)	Ji, Fenguyan
	2019	'Continuity, Adaptation, and Challenge': The Chinese Communist ideology and policy on minzu (1922-2013)	Wu, Guo
	2019	The Rise of the Union between Theory and Praxis: Chilean Communism in the Cold War (1934-1990)	Fermandois, Joaqìn
	2019	The Ecuadorian Left during Global Crisis: Republican Democracy, Class Struggle and State Formation (1919-1946)	Coronel, Valeria
	2019	Brotherhood and Unity: Language and Language Politics in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945-1991)	Leto, Maria Rita
	2019	Language of the Communist Totality in Czechoslovakia: Influence on Our Awareness and its Projection into Reality (1952-2010)	Čermák, František
	2019	Unreliable Allies: the Peasants in the Romanian Early Communist Discourse (1948-1965)	Morar-Vulcu, Călin
	2019	The Language Beyond the Wall: On the Sovietisation of the German Language in the ‘ex-DDR’ (1945-1989)	Delli Castelli, Barbara
	2019	Tautology as the Highest Form of Ideology: Reflections on Stalinist Discourse (1930-1953)	Petrov, Petre
	2019	Rebellious Walls: Graffiti in Italy during the Cold War (1948-1955)" in: "Words of Power, the Power of Words. The Twentieth-Century Communist Discourse in International Perspective	Mannari, Enrico
	2019	Cold-War Iconographic Battles: The Italian Communist Party and Italian Anti-Communism (1945-1956)	Mariuzzo, Andrea
	2019	The Faces of Militancy: Palmiro Togliatti’s Propaganda Portraits (1948-1964)	Cheles, Luciano
	2019	The Italian Communist Party and the Birth of il manifesto: Languages and Cultures of a Conflict (1966-1970)	Colozza, Roberto
	2019	Socialism and Revisionism: the Power of Words in the Ideological Controversy between the Italian Communist Party and the Chinese Communist Party (Late 1950s-Early 1960s)	Samarani, Guido; Graziani, Sofia
	2019	Grammar and Historical Materialism: Linguistic Education in Italian Communist Party Schools (1947-1977)	Tonelli, Anna
	2019	The Languages of the Italian Communists: Some Descriptive Remarks (1921-1964)	Andreucci, Franco
	2019	Discipline and Organisation: Performativity and Revolutionary Semantics in Gramsci’s and Togliatti’s Texts (1916-1928)	Bassi, Giulia
	2019	Introduction – Why Should the Linguistic Turn Be Taken?	Bassi, Giulia

This volume proposes a collection of nineteen essays on the history of international communism during the twentieth century. The first part is dedicated to the Italian Communist Party, the most important communist party in Western Europe. The book then moves on to an analysis of the parties of Eastern Europe, for example in the Soviet Union, East Germany, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. Finally, the analysis goes beyond the European boundaries, focusing on communism in Latin America, with Chilean communism and the Ecuadorian Left, and in Eastern Asia, with the Vietnamese and the Chinese Communist parties. The book offers a global and interdisciplinary approach, merging the analysis of political-cultural processes with the study of political discourse and language, textual or iconic, thanks to studies by historians, linguists, philosophers, and historians of language.

Giulia Bassi, with a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Trieste with a co-tutorship agreement with the University of Reading, is currently a research fellow in Contemporary History at the University of Eastern Piedmont and Adjunct Professor at the University of Parma. Her research focuses on the history of political thought, and particularly on the Italian Communist Party and the Italian Left, and on the history of twentieth-century Marxist historiography.