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A. Rossi
A. ROSSI (1892-1960) was an Italian politician and historical writer. Born Angelo Tasca in Moretta on November 19, 1892, he was an active Socialist as a young man, but when the Italian Socialist Pa...view moreA. ROSSI (1892-1960) was an Italian politician and historical writer. Born Angelo Tasca in Moretta on November 19, 1892, he was an active Socialist as a young man, but when the Italian Socialist Party split in 1921 he joined the newly formed Communist Party. At the time of Mussolini’s march on Rome he was in Russia taking part in the Fourth Congress of the Communist International. He worked for four years underground in the secretariat of the illegal Italian Communist Party, was arrested three times, and escaped twice. He knew Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Molotov, Bukharin, Radek, and many other leading Bolsheviks, as well as the heads of the Party in other countries. As a member of the secretariat of the Communist International from 1928-1929, he observed firsthand the dissensions among the disciples of Lenin, Stalin’s policy in Germany, and, realizing what Communism actually meant in Russia, broke completely with Communist ideology and the Soviet organization in 1929. In the 1930s he worked as a journalist and foreign policy specialist in Paris, serving as foreign editor of the Socialist daily, Le Populaire, and directed the Italian language broadcasts from Paris from 1937-1940. He died there on March 3, 1960.view less
Books by A. Rossi
A Communist Party in Action: An Account of the Organization and Operations in France