Gulag Memories
Zuzanna Bogumil Gulag Memories. The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia’s Repressive Past. Tradotto dal polacco in inglese da Philip Palmer (Bergham Books, 2018). Description Though the institution of the Gulag was nominally closed over half a decade ago, it lives on as an often hotly contested site of memory in the post-socialist era. This ethnographic study takes a holistic, comprehensive approach to understanding memories...
CfP: The Legacy of the First World War in Central Europe
Deadline 31 marzo 2019 The Legacy of the First World War in Central Europe (1918-1939) Numerous publications, written from different perspectives and different academic disciplines, appeared during the centenary years of 2014 to 2018, consolidating the image of the First World War as one of the most significant turning points of the twentieth century. European societies were unsettled by the war events, the hitherto unprecedented...
The War Within
Alexis Peri The War Within. Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad (Harvard University Press, 2017). In September 1941, two and a half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives, making it one of the longest and deadliest sieges in modern history. The War Within chronicles...
I miei occhi hanno visto
Ágnes Heller I miei occhi hanno visto Da marxista a liberal-democratica, dissidente ed esiliata, Ágnes Heller (nata in una famiglia ebrea di Budapest nel 1929) racconta – in questo libro-intervista – la sua straordinaria avventura di vita e di pensiero attraverso il secolo dei totalitarismi e delle utopie. Il padre, anarchico e scrittore. La vita nel ghetto. Il maestro indimenticato, Gyorgy Lukacs. E poi l’abbandono...
