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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2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y2413.75100%29%8%

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Arizona StateLSE1001020
British ColumbiaPenn State1001020
Toronto BChicago B001010
RITCornell B001010
Georgia TechHarvard1001020
WUSTL AIllinois A1001020
Ohio StateIllinois B001010
StanfordIndiana10101030
Toronto CIowa State001010
Johns HopkinsMIT001010
MichiganMaryland001010
MinnesotaCornell A001010
North Carolina AToronto A001010
RutgersColumbia A001010
TexasVirginia Tech001010
NorthwesternUC Berkeley A001010
UC Berkeley BFlorida001010
UCFColumbia B001010
North Carolina BVanderbilt001010
OttawaWUSTL B1001020
Waterloo AChicago A001010
Georgia StateWaterloo B10101030
Winona StateVirginia001010
NYUYale001010