Question
A former writer for a magazine whose name translates as “the manifesto” analogized this organization’s trajectory to that of the legendary Tailor of Ulm in a 2009 book that was republished by Verso in 2011. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this organization, whose leaders advocated a theory known as “polycentrism.” One of this organization’s founders, Palmiro Togliatti (“toll-YAH-tee”), names a city that was the headquarters of VAZ.
ANSWER: Italian Communist Party [or PCI; or Partito Comunista Italiano; prompt on Communist Party or Partito Comunista] (The magazine is titled Il Manifesto. The city is Tolyatti, Russia.)
[10h] A key change in the PCI’s trajectory occurred when they agreed to back Pietro Badoglio’s (“buh-DOL-yoh’s”) conservative wartime government as part of a “turn” named after this Italian city.
ANSWER: Salerno
[10e] The PCI began to distance itself from the Soviet Union upon the ascension of this Soviet premier, who denounced his predecessor’s repressive policies in the “Secret Speech.”
ANSWER: Nikita Khrushchev [or Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev]
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Summary
2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 24 | 13.75 | 100% | 29% | 8% |
Data
Arizona State | LSE | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
British Columbia | Penn State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Toronto B | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
RIT | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Georgia Tech | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
WUSTL A | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Ohio State | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Stanford | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Toronto C | Iowa State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Johns Hopkins | MIT | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Michigan | Maryland | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Minnesota | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
North Carolina A | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Rutgers | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Texas | Virginia Tech | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Northwestern | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
UC Berkeley B | Florida | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
UCF | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
North Carolina B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Ottawa | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Waterloo A | Chicago A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Georgia State | Waterloo B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Winona State | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
NYU | Yale | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |