{{Short description|Italian journalist and historian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}}

{{More citations needed|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Giuseppe Boffa | image = Giuseppe Boffa.jpg | order = Member of the Senate | term_start = 27 June 1987 | term_end = 13 September 1998 | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1923|07|23}} | birth_place = Milan, Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1998|09|23|1923|07|22}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | death_cause = | party = Italian Communist Party | alma_mater = | occupation = historian, journalist | constituency = Campania }}

'''Giuseppe Boffa''' (Milan, 23 July 1923 – Rome, 13 September 1998 ) was an Italian journalist, historian and politician. He took part in World War II resistance movement, joined the Italian Communist Party and used to work for the Italian Communist newspaper, ''l'Unità'' and wrote on Soviet history. His work, ''The History of Soviet Union'', published in 1976, influenced leaders of the Soviet Union, such as Mikhail Gorbachev. His works won Viareggio Prize.<ref>{{Cite journal |author = Mo E. |editor=|journal=Corriere |url= http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Spettacoli/2007/04_Aprile/27/gramsci_mo.shtml |title= Vi racconto mio padre, Antonio Gramsci |type= |orig-year= | agency = |edition= Corriere della Sera |date= 27 April 2007 |at= |volume= |issue= |number= |pages = |page= |series= |issn = |doi = |bibcode = |arxiv = |pmid = |language= it |quote =}}</ref>{{sfn|Taubman|2017|p=127}}

==References== {{reflist}} {{cite book |first=William |last=Taubman |year=2017 |author-link=William Taubman|title=Gorbachev: His Life and Times |location=New York City |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1471147968 }} {{authority control}}

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