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A former writer for a magazine whose name translates as “the manifesto” analogized this organization’s trajectory to that of the legendary Tailor of Ulm in a 2009 book that was republished by Verso in 2011. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this organization, whose leaders advocated a theory known as “polycentrism.” One of this organization’s founders, Palmiro Togliatti (“toll-YAH-tee”), names a city that was the headquarters of VAZ.
ANSWER: Italian Communist Party [or PCI; or Partito Comunista Italiano; prompt on Communist Party or Partito Comunista] (The magazine is titled Il Manifesto. The city is Tolyatti, Russia.)
[10h] A key change in the PCI’s trajectory occurred when they agreed to back Pietro Badoglio’s (“buh-DOL-yoh’s”) conservative wartime government as part of a “turn” named after this Italian city.
ANSWER: Salerno
[10e] The PCI began to distance itself from the Soviet Union upon the ascension of this Soviet premier, who denounced his predecessor’s repressive policies in the “Secret Speech.”
ANSWER: Nikita Khrushchev [or Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev]
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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StateLSE1001020ME
British ColumbiaPenn State1001020ME
Georgia StateWaterloo B10101030MHE
Georgia TechHarvard1001020ME
Johns HopkinsMIT001010E
MichiganMaryland001010E
MinnesotaCornell A001010E
NYUYale001010E
North Carolina AToronto A001010E
North Carolina BVanderbilt001010E
NorthwesternUC Berkeley A001010E
Ohio StateIllinois B001010E
OttawaWUSTL B1001020ME
RITCornell B001010E
RutgersColumbia A001010E
StanfordIndiana10101030MHE
TexasVirginia Tech001010E
Toronto BChicago B001010E
Toronto CIowa State001010E
UC Berkeley BFlorida001010E
UCFColumbia B001010E
WUSTL AIllinois A1001020ME
Waterloo AChicago A001010E
Winona StateVirginia001010E

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2413.75100%29%8%