Witnessing Stalin’s Justice
Kelly J. Evans, Jeanie M. Welch The United States and the Moscow Show Trials Witnessing Stalin’s Justice brings together contemporary American reactions to the Moscow show trials and analyses them to understand their impact on US-Soviet relations. Held between 1936 and 1938, the show trials made false charges such as espionage, sabotage and counter-revolutionary plotting at the behest of the exiled Leon Trotsky to condemn the...
Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire 1880 – 1914
Catherine Horel Catherine Horel has undertaken a comparative analysis of the societal, ethnic, and cultural diversity in the last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy as represented in twelve cities: Arad, Bratislava, Brno, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Oradea, Rijeka, Sarajevo, Subotica, Timișoara, Trieste, and Zagreb. By purposely selecting these cities, the author aims to counter the disproportionate attention that the largest cities in the empire...
Tito. L’artefice della Jugoslavia comunista
Vojislav Pavlovic Josip Broz scelse il comunismo come la via per la propria ascensione sociale e seppe sopravvivere alle purghe per diventare Tito, il leader dei partigiani jugoslavi e il miglior discepolo di Stalin. Le sue ambizioni territoriali lo portarono alla rottura con Stalin nel 1948 e lo spinsero a cercare di riformare il regime comunista jugoslavo. L’autogestione come versione jugoslava del socialismo e la creazione del...
Inside the OSCE
Stefano Baldi This publication is based on selected interventions from a cycle of seminars titled: “The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as a model for multilateral regional diplomacy of the 21st century”, organised in 2022 by the Permanent Mission of Italy to the OSCE with some Italian Universities. The initiative took place from March to May 2022 in virtual format, with the aim to promote the knowledge and...
Jewish Refugees in the Balkans, 1933-1945
Bojan Aleksov The Balkans provided the escape route for tens of thousands of German Jews, and remained a place of refuge until the Nazis brutally shut it off with the mass murder of Jewish refugees on the so-called Kladovo transport starting in September 1941, which can be considered as the beginning of the Holocaust in Europe. Responding to publications about the Western European and American exile experience of the Jews after 1933,...
Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police
Stejarel Olaru, Alistair Ian Blyth Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games and went on to collect three gold medals in performances which influenced the sport for generations to come, cementing...