Must every revolution end in tyranny (as suggested by Ignazio Silone)? Can you identify a revolution that, by the criteria you establish, can be viewed as a success?
Solution
Ignazio Silone 1 st May 1990 in Pescina,a small town in montainous region of the abruzzi. In 1915 an earth quake shatterd central Italy.Around 50,00 people were killed among them silone\'s mother.In 1917,as political agitation against the government and the war grew up rapidly.
Silone became regional secretary for rural works of the Abruzzi.He was arrested on a demonstration against the war. Three articles he wrote for the socialist party AVANTHI resulted in the editions being supressed by the authoroties.He had denounced the divertion of funds supposedly destined for earthquake relife.
Over next three years the revolution swept across Europe,Silone identified firmly with the militant left of the socialist movement,centred on the factory councils of turin.It was this group led to Antonio Gramsci which split from the socialist party to form the Italiyam Communist Party in Jan 1921.
Silone immediatley took an important role in the new party.He was appointed as editor of the paper for the city of Trieste and then,as the fascist threat grew and Mussoline came to power, went underground.Over the next three years he was sent as a communist party deligate to Germany,France,Spain and Russia.In 1925 he was brought to the publications department of the PCI to work withGramci and became responsible for party propaganda and agitation.
Silone\'s life was moulded by the two great forces in 20th century.First he was inspired and steeled by the hopes of new world which formed the great war and Russian revoulution.Then he experienced the disullution for 1930s as facism and Stalinism reigned trumphant.But he never dispared.He saw clearly as much as early possible,the consequences and the degeneration formed.And he depiced what facism reallu mean in a way the whole world could understand.
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1. Must every revolution end in tyranny (as suggested by Ignazio Silone)? Can you identify a
revolution that, by the criteria you establish, can be viewed as a success?
Solution
Ignazio Silone 1 st
May 1990 in Pescina,a small town in montainous region of the abruzzi. In
1915 an earth quake shatterd central Italy.Around 50,00 people were killed among them silone's
mother.In 1917,as political agitation against the government and the war grew up rapidly.
Silone became regional secretary for rural works of the Abruzzi.He was arrested on a
demonstration against the war. Three articles he wrote for the socialist party AVANTHI resulted
in the editions being supressed by the authoroties.He had denounced the divertion of funds
supposedly destined for earthquake relife.
Over next three years the revolution swept across Europe,Silone identified firmly with the
militant left of the socialist movement,centred on the factory councils of turin.It was this group
led to Antonio Gramsci which split from the socialist party to form the Italiyam Communist
Party in Jan 1921.
Silone immediatley took an important role in the new party.He was appointed as editor of the
paper for the city of Trieste and then,as the fascist threat grew and Mussoline came to power,
went underground.Over the next three years he was sent as a communist party deligate to
Germany,France,Spain and Russia.In 1925 he was brought to the publications department of the
PCI to work withGramci and became responsible for party propaganda and agitation.
Silone's life was moulded by the two great forces in 20th century.First he was inspired and
steeled by the hopes of new world which formed the great war and Russian revoulution.Then he
experienced the disullution for 1930s as facism and Stalinism reigned trumphant.But he never
dispared.He saw clearly as much as early possible,the consequences and the degeneration
formed.And he depiced what facism reallu mean in a way the whole world could understand.
