Beginning with a review of the numerous studies that tend to emphasize the national, societal dimension of the Italian and French communist parties, Cyrille Guiat''s book is a comparative study of the two parties from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.

Beginning with a review of the numerous studies that tend to emphasize the national, societal dimension of the Italian and French communist parties, Cyrille Guiat''s book is a comparative study of the two parties from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.