2 A Poor Student in Turin

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Part I. From Sardinian Gramsci to National Gramsci
5. 1 In Sardinia 3
6. 2 A Poor Student in Turin 22
7. Part II. From National Gramsci to Internationalist Gramsci
8. 3 A Socialist Journalist, Marginal and Original 55
9. 4 From the Experience of L’Ordine Nuovo to His Departure for Moscow 82
10. Part III. The Bolshevik
11. 5 In the Service of the Comintern 117
12. 6 At the Head of the New Communist Party of Italy 145
13. Part IV. The Prisoner
14. 7 For Twenty Years, We Must Stop This Brain from Functioning 181
15. 8 The Prisoner and the Philosopher 209
16. Epilogue 236
17. English Editions of Gramsci’s Writings 257
18. Selected Chronology of Gramsci’s Life 259
19. Appendix A: Family Tree of the Schucht Family 265
20. Appendix B: Overview of Gramsci’s Visits and Visitors between May 1927 and His Death in April 1937 267
21. Notes 269
22. Translator’s Note and Acknowledgments 295
23. Index 297