TY - BOOK AU - Marlin Saad Farid Boulos Farid AU - Kamal Elmenoufy , TI - Italian left between consolidation and delcline in the post cold war period / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Marlin Saad Farid Boulos Farid , KW - Cold war KW - Fall of Communism KW - Left N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Department of Political Science; Issued also as CD N2 - For a medium power like Italy the absence of the bipolar system offered opportunities and risks . By analyzing the performance of the different currents of the Italian Left in the six elections after the fall of Communism, from 1992 to 2008, I tried to investigate the reasons of its crisis to predict its future . The elements of consolidation consist in the integrity of its members, which enabled it to resist the corruption allegations in the nineties ER -