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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