EUROCOMMUNISM IN PCI-CPSU RELATIONS IN THE 1970s-1980s

The article analyzes the relations between the Italian Communist Party and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1970-1980s, when the PCI was the leading force in the newly formed movement - Eurocommunism. The ideological foundations of Eurocommunism, the doctrine of the Italian path to socialism and the historical compromise are considered in comparison with Marxism-Leninism, which at that time was the official ideology in the USSR. The author chronologically lists the stages of the crisis in relations between the two parties and analyzes the impact of the international situation on the decline in the USSR’s prestige in the eyes of the Italian communists