La diplomazia del dialogo
Alessandro Salacon La diplomazia del dialogo Il dossier “Unione Sovietica” ha occupato la scrivania di tutti i ministri degli Esteri italiani dal dopoguerra no al crollo dell’Urss. Quali relazioni istituire con Mosca? Pur con tutti i distinguo, ogni governo della penisola dovette elaborare strategie per contrastarne le ingerenze, difendersi dalle sue minacce o collaborare con essa, nella cornice più ampia della competizione tra...
The Future of the Past
Serhii Plokhy Ukraine is in the midst of the worst international crisis in East-West relations since the Cold War, and history itself has become a battleground in Russia-Ukraine relations. Can history and historical narratives be blamed for what has happened in the region, or can they show the path to peace and reconciliation, helping to integrate the history of the region in the broader European context? The essays collected here...
Moscow 1956 The Silenced Spring
Kathleen E. Smith Joseph Stalin had been dead for three years when his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, stunned a closed gathering of Communist officials with a litany of his predecessor’s abuses. Meant to clear the way for reform from above, Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” of February 25, 1956, shattered the myth of Stalin’s infallibility. In a bid to rejuvenate the Party, Khrushchev had his report read out loud to members across the...
A Contested Borderland
Andrei Cusco A Contested Borderland Competing Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Bessarabia―mostly occupied by modern-day republic of Moldova―was the only territory representing an object of rivalry and symbolic competition between the Russian Empire and a fully crystallized nation-state: the Kingdom of Romania. This book is an intellectual prehistory of the Bessarabian...
Storielle e barzellette lituane sul totalitarismo
Claudio Barna, Alessandro Vitale L’ironia e la satira hanno messo alla berlina per decenni e con impareggiabile coraggio (a rischio del carcere e della fucilazione) le assurdità e le contraddizioni del regime sovietico, anche in periodi di violenta repressione. Questa antologia di anekdòtai lituani, di storielle e barzellette dedicate a diversi aspetti della vita sociale e politica sotto quel regime – in Lituania anche di occupazione...
