The essay examines the passages that depict the historical parable of «adriatic communism
» between the end of World War II and the 1948 Tito-Stalin schism. From the
picture, re-assembled with extensive use of unpublished sources from national and foreign
archives, emerges a Communist movement in which the strategic variants not only
intertwined, but often were deeply influenced by the national question. The key figure of
the sudden changes of line that «adriatic communism» was forced to meet and, together,
the catalyst of the contrasts dividing the communist movement far beyond the regional
dimension, was Vittorio Vidali. The essay devotes a great deal of reflection to the policy
he followed in the A-zone of Trieste’s free territory and its immediate consequences for
the «adriatic communism».
