Paolo Alatri
| Paolo Alatri | |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 7 May 1963 – 4 June 1968 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 27, 1918 Rome |
| Died | October 30, 1995 (aged 77) Rome |
| Political party | PCI |
| Occupation | University professor |
| Website | Chamber of Deputies' records |
Paolo Alatri (Rome, 27 February 1918 – Rome, 30 October 1995) was an Italian historian and Marxist politician.
Born into a middle class Jewish family, Paolo Alatri had his secondary education at the Torquato Tasso in Rome, where his classmates included Bruno Zevi and Mario Alicata. After graduating with a degree in literature and philosophy from the University of Rome in 1940 he enrolled in the Action Party, taking an active part in the defense of Rome (September 1943) and subsequently in the Italian resistance movement. After the war he became a Communist (1943) and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on the PCI list. He alternated his political activities with teaching history, first at the University of Palermo, then at the University of Messina and finally at the University of Perugia, where he was in charge of the Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche for a period in the 1980s.
An upstanding man with deep democratic beliefs, he educated generations of students in the code of honour propagated by the Resistance in the 1940s: love of liberty, respect for human dignity, solidarity with the poor and the oppressed. A strong supporter of the USSR, he was also President of the Associazione Italia-URSS (1961-1970) and later a member of its governing board. He resigned from the board in 1980 as a result of the Moscow authorities' treatment of the nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov, saying «Non posso essere amico di chi si comporta come al tempo degli Zar» (I cannot be a friend of those who behave as in the time of the Tsar). He died at Rome in 1995 from an incurable disease.
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