Giuseppe Boffa (Milan, 23 July 1923 - Rome, 13 September 1998 ) was an Italian journalist, historian and politician. He took part in
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
resistance movement, joined the
Italian Communist Party
The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy.
The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). ...
and used to work for Italian Communist newspaper,
l'Unità
''l'Unità'' (, lit. 'the Unity') was an Italian newspaper, founded as the official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1924. It was supportive of that party's successor parties, the Democratic Party of the Left, Democrats of the ...
and wrote on Soviet history. His work, ''the History of Soviet Union'', published in 1976, influenced leaders of the Soviet Union, such as
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet politician who served as the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to dissolution of the Soviet Union, the country's dissolution in 1991. He served a ...
. His works won
Viareggio Prize
The Viareggio Prize ( it, Premio Viareggio, italic=no or ) is an Italian literary prize, first awarded in 1930. Named after the Tuscan city of Viareggio, it was conceived by three friends, , Carlo Salsa and Leonida Rèpaci, to rival the Milanese ...
.
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1923 births
1998 deaths
Italian male journalists
20th-century Italian male writers
Politicians from Milan
20th-century Italian historians
Italian Communist Party politicians
20th-century Italian journalists
Italian resistance movement members
Journalists from Milan
Senators of Legislature X of Italy
Viareggio Prize winners
Historians of the Soviet Union
L'Unità editors
Democrats of the Left politicians