Editing Palmiro Togliatti

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'''Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti''' (26 March 1893 – 21 August 1964) was the founder and leader of the [[Italian Communist Party|Communist Party of Italy]].

==Early life==
Togliatti was born in 1893.<ref>{{Citation|author=P. Togliatti|year=1964|title=Interview with P. Togliatti|chapter=|section=|page=|quote=|pdf=|city=|publisher=Noi Donne|isbn=|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref>

==Prewar activism ==
In 1914, Togliatti joined the [[Italian Socialist Party]] and he helped found the Communist Party of Italy in 1921. After [[Antonio Gramsci]]'s imprisonment, he was elected leader of the party but was exiled to [[French Republic (1870–1940)|France]] by [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]].

== Postwar activism==
Togliatti returned to Italy after Mussolini was overthrown and ran in the 1948 election. The election was rigged by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], but Togliatti still managed to get 30% of the vote.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=|date=1948-05-03|title=ITALY: The Battle Continues|url=|newspaper=Time|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823183922/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,798522,00.html|archive-date=2013-08-17|retrieved=}}</ref>

In the late 1950s, Togliatti encouraged the communist movement to develop national paths to socialism that were not centered around the Soviet Union.<ref name=":022">{{Citation|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]|year=2017|title=Red Star over the Third World|chapter=Polycentric Communism|page=117|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacecu7gb2ei65us6ip3r2ugcgkblneqcftbm456mb6bzvprkbqk55qm?filename=Vijay%20Prashad%20-%20Red%20Star%20Over%20the%20Third%20World-LeftWord%20Books%20%282018%29.pdf|city=New Delhi|publisher=LeftWord Books}}</ref>

He died of natural causes in 1964 and a city in [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russia]] was renamed after him.

==References==
[[Category:Communists]]

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