![]() The relation between the impacts of European détente on the one hand, and domestic détente on the other, was very different in the two cases. In the second part of the chapter, the changes in these parties’ internationalism will be further explained in as far as they depended on domestic developments and on the situation of both countries in the East–West conflict.ĢThe analysis looks at the domestic impacts of European détente in France and Italy and identifies the conditions of “domestic détente” in the two cases, or the gradual integration of the communist party into the political system and society. Here, the impact of the conflicts inside the world communist movement on these parties’ general developments is at the centre of attention, and will be dealt with in some detail in the first part of the chapter. ![]() With a few exceptions, the literature dealing with the PCI and PCF in this period has not fully investigated the interactions between these parties’ domestic developments and the complex interplay within the world communist movement. The situation inside the communist world was at this point a highly complex one, and the PCI and PCF took part in the many disputes and positioned themselves with regard to the multiple cleavages. ![]() 1Two major developments in the 1960s dramatically changed the international situation in which the West European communist parties operated: the Sino–Soviet dispute and the coming of European détente. ![]()
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