Giuseppe Berti

Giuseppe Berti (22 July 1901 – 16 March 1979) was an Italian communist politician, journalist and historian.

Biography Berti was born in to a middle-class Waldenisan family active in the socialist movement. He began his political activism at the age of 17 in Palermo, where he studied law. As a young socialist he founded the revolutionary magazine Clartè and also wrote in the newspaper Il Soviet.

In January 1921 he was among the delegates at the socialist congress in Livorno who founded the Communist Party of Italy. A month later, Berti became the secretary of the Italian Communist Youth Federation as well as director of the related weekly L'Avanguardia. During this period he was close to the faction of Angelo Tasca.

Between 1948 and 1963 he was elected as a member of parliament in Sicily. Berti's passion for historical and philosophical studies led him to gradually abandon political activities in favour of academic works.

He was the first national secretary of the Associazione Italia Urss and the director of the magazine Società. He edited the critical edition of the papers of the Tasca archive for the Annali Feltrinelli.

Berti died of a stroke on March 16, 1979.

Works Contro la guerra imperialista innalziamo la bandiera della guerra civile, Fgcd'I, 1932 Giù le mani dalla Cina, Edizioni del Pcd'I, 1932 A new Italy arises, New York, Workers Library, 1943 L'antisovietismo contro l'Italia, Roma, U.E.S.I.S.A., s. d. La via della pace. Discorso di apertura al I Congresso nazionale Italia-URSS. Torino, Teatro Alfieri, 25 ottobre 1949, Roma, U.E.S.I.S.A., 1949 Il pensiero democratico russo del XIX secolo, Firenze, Sansoni, 1950 Per uno studio della vita e del pensiero di Antonio Labriola, Roma, 1954 I democratici e l'iniziativa meridionale nel Risorgimento, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1962 I primi dieci anni di vita del P.C.I. Documenti inediti dell'archivio Angelo Tasca, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1967