This essay seeks to raise the question of how the Prague Spring and its suppression mattered for the subsequent history of the European Left. Did its defeat, by allegedly expelling any genuinely democratic socialism into ...

The present work aims to investigate the period before the Prague Spring (1968) and the tension between culture and politics through the study of one particular cultural agent, the literary magazines. In particular, the ...

March 1968 has become one of the most significant dates in Polish history in the 20th century. The student demonstrations and antisemitic campaigning caused considerable changes in the social, political and cultural ...

The article is a parallel reading of some literary and nonfictional works of Witold Gombrowicz and Pier Paolo Pasolini, concerning ‘youth’ and ‘young people’ in the 1960s, particularly around 1968. In spite of the ...

The article investigates the political change of the 1970s, due to the emergence of new political movements, and their dialogue with political parties. In particular, it provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship ...

Between the bardovskaya pesnya – the best manifestation of the alternative Soviet culture in the ’60s and ’70s – and the so-called “Soviet Rock” of the ’80s, there are lots of similarities. The article maintains that ...

The early writings of Vittorio Strada and Viktor Nekrasov, together with their correspondance, allow us to consider from a different point of view the literary and ideological process in Soviet Russia during the 1950s ...

This article aims at giving an account of the Russian reception of the French personal novel and its contribution to the development of Russian psychological realism. The heuristic qualities of self-disclosure embedded ...

This article demonstrates the dependency on the French translation of the Italian and English translations of Witold Gombrowicz’s 1966 drama entitled Operetta and discusses the relationship between these three translations ...