Keywords

• In 1974
• Procacci published his Il partito nellâ€
• ™
• Unione Sovietica
• 1917-1945 â€
• “
• a book issuing from a long period of intellectual and political queries. It is a text rich in unspoken questions
• particularly on the resounding success of one-party systems in European and world history
• and the historical significance of Jacobinism. In fact
• Procacci used this concept in very different ways
• taking it alternately from Mathiez to Lenin
• Gramsci to Giuseppe Berti. Today
• although his text can hardly be considered a viable contribution to the history of the Soviet Union
• it is still an interesting document in twentieth-century Italian intellectual history