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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boffa, Giuseppe 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