Enrico Berlinguer
| Enrico Berlinguer | |
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| General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party |
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In office 17 March 1972 – 11 June 1984 |
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| Preceded by | Luigi Longo |
| Succeeded by | Alessandro Natta |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 5 June 1968 – 11 June 1984 |
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| Constituency | Lazio – XV |
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| Born | 15 May 1922 Sassari, Italy |
| Died | 11 June 1984 (aged 62) Padova, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party | Italian Communist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Letizia Laurenti |
| Children | 4, inc. Bianca Berlinguer |
| Website | Official website |
Enrico Berlinguer (Italian: [enˈriːko berliŋˈɡwɛr] 
listen ; 15 May 1922 – 11 June 1984) was an Italian politician; he was national secretary of the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano or PCI) from 1972 until his death.
Considered the most popular leader of the PCI, Berlinguer led the party during a tense period in Italy's history, marked by the Years of Lead and social conflicts such as the Hot Autumn of 1969-1970. He distanced the party from the influence of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and pursued a moderate line, repositioning the party within Italian politics and advocating accommodation and national unity. This strategy came to be termed Eurocommunism, and he was seen as its main spokesperson. It would come to be adopted by Western Europe's other significant communist parties, in Spain, Portugal, and later France, its significance as a political force cemented by a 1977 meeting in Madrid between Berlinguer, Georges Marchais and Santiago Carrillo. Berlinguer himself described his "alternative" model of socialism, distinct from both the Soviet bloc and the capitalism practiced by Western countries during the Cold War, as the terza via or "third way", although his usage of the term has no relation to the more centrist Third Way practiced by subsequent Prime Ministers Romano Prodi and Matteo Renzi.
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