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

BA

First year
Concepts and Methods in History

Second and third year
France Since 1870: Fascism, Communism and Democracy
Germany Since 1870: Nationalism Versus Democracy

MA
Italian Terrorism in the 20th Century

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 (pp. 40-60).
• '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).