Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Toby Abse

Academic qualifications

BA, Cambridge, 1978
PhD, Cambridge, 1983
Thesis entitled 'The Political Struggle in Livorno, 1918-1922: The Rise of Fascism in a Socialist Stronghold.'

Teaching

First year
HT51016A Shaping of the Modern World
HT51017A Concepts and Methods in History

Second and third year
HT52059A Italy Since 1870
HT52098A/53098A France Since 1870: Fascism, Communism and Democracy
HT52097A/HT53097A Germany Since 1870: Nationalism Versus Democracy
HT53010A Antonio Gramsci and Italian Politics 1914-1925 (Special Subject)

MA
HT71059A Fascist Italy: Politics, Culture and Society

Research interests

My research interests include Italian fascism, Italian Communism, Italian labour history and recent developments in Italian politics.

Selected publications

'The Moro Affair: Interpretations and Consequences' in Stephen Gundle and Lucia Rinaldi (eds), Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy: Transformations in Society and Culture, Palgrave , October 2007, pp. 89-112.

'Togliatti, the PCI and the Eastern European revolts of 1956', in Keith Flett (ed.) 1956 and all that, Cambridge Scholars' Press, May 2007, pp. 126-143.

'Catholic-Jewish Relations in Italy from Unification to the Second Vatican Council (1870-1965)' in Philip Broadhead and Damien Keown (eds.), Can Faiths Make Peace? Holy Wars and the Resolution of Religious Conflicts, I.B. Tauris, 2007, pp. 107-123, pp. 189-191.

'Palmiro Togliatti and the Italian Communist Party in 1956', Revolutionary History, Vol. 9, No. 3, (Autumn 2006), pp. 182-207.

' Palmiro Togliatti: Loyal Servant of Stalin' - extended version of chapter in Flett and Renton book- Revolutionary History, Vol. 9, No. 2, (February 2006), pp. 66-89.

'Italy's Long Road to Austerity and the Paradoxes of Communism' in Bernard H. Moss ( ed.), Monetary Union in Crisis: The European Union as a Neo-Liberal Construction, Palgrave, January 2005. (pp.249-265).

'Togliatti, Loyal Servant of Stalin' in Keith Flett and David Renton (eds.), New Approaches to Socialist History , New Clarion Press, May 2003, (pp. 30-48 and pp.151-55)

Second Edition Sovversivi e fascisti a Livorno: Lotta politica e sociale (1918-1922), Franco Angeli, Milan, September 1991.

'Italian Workers and Italian Fascism' in Richard Bessel (ed), Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: Comparisons and Contrasts, Cambridge University Press, 28 March 1996 (pp40-60).

'Recent Trends in the Historiography of Italian Fascism' in Keith Flett and David Renton (editors), The Twentieth Century: A Century of Wars and Revolutions?, Rivers Oram Press, 6 May 2000 (pp.156-171 and pp.260-64).

'The Italian Left from PCI to DS: how European Integration accelerated "social-democratisation"', Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, vol.3, no.1, May 2001, (pp 61-74).