# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giuseppe-boffa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:48:19.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giuseppe-boffa"
name: "Giuseppe Boffa"
slug: "giuseppe-boffa"
description: "Giuseppe Boffa 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."
tagline: "Italian journalist, historian and politician (1923–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Giuseppe_Boffa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1923-07-23"
deathDate: "1998-09-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.475414666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Boffa"
    title: "Giuseppe Boffa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%BE_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "جيوسيپ بوفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Boffa"
    title: "Giuseppe Boffa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Boffa"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Boffa"
    title: "Giuseppe Boffa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B0%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%B5"
    title: "Боффа, Джузеппе"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7001404"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump