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Pensare la Primavera di Praga: tra disillusione, lutto e melanconia.
(2019)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 ... -
L’eco della Primavera di Praga nella produzione letteraria samizdat: il caso dei Fejetony
(2019)To commemorate the Prague Spring, the Czech writer and journalist Ludvík Vaculík (1926- 2015) decided in 1968 to devote a short prose text (fejeton) to the real spring season and to the metaphorical one, which would be ... -
Tra Disgelo e Primavera in Cecoslovacchia: breve sonda nel mondo delle riviste letterarie
(2019)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 ... -
Lo sberleffo della rivolta nella poesia di Nowa Fala
(2019)The student revolt of March 1968 in Poland quickly succumbed under the wave of brutal violence and repression unleashed by the regime against the peaceful students and broader academic milieu. Polish students in their ... -
Conceptualising ‘Anti-Zionism’: Piasecki’s Group as an Intellectual Resource for the 1968 Antisemitic Campaign in People’s Poland
(2019)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 ... -
“In fondo siamo quasi amici”. I servizi di sicurezza della Repubblica Popolare di Polonia nel Gemello di Józef Hen
(2019)The article focuses on the constructive elements which used by Józef Hen to give birth to the figure of Marek Marczewski (later Mraczewski) in the short story “The Twin”, written as a reaction to the tragical riots in ... -
Giovani e gioventù tra ‘forma’ e ‘omologazione’: Gombrowicz e Pasolini intorno al ’68
(2019)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 ... -
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Il Sessantotto a cavallo tra i blocchi: socialismi dal volto umano a Est e a Ovest
(2019)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 ... -
Il Sessantotto in Slovenia
(2019)In post-war Slovenia, student activism came to the fore, with growing intensity, in three separate phases, 1964, 1968 and 1970-1971, culminating in the occupation of the Faculty of Philosophy, Ljubljana University during ... -
Incise sul corpo del socialismo reale: dalla bardovskaja pesnja al rock sovietico
(2019)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 ... -
Н.В. Недоброво и Л.А. Недоброво в переписке с В.И. Ивановым и М.М. Замятиной (1912-1914)
(2019)The article is devoted to the correspondence that was between Vyacheslav Ivanov, Nikolai Nedobrovo, Lyubov Nedobrovo and Maria Zamyatnina in 1912-1914. A special place is given to the letters of Nikolay Nedobrovo to ... -
Il grande dibattito sul realismo socialista nel 1956: una lettera di Vittorio Strada a Viktor Nekrasov
(2019)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 ... -
La forza della sdrucciola
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Kalevala: ultime versioni italiane
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Spirituality of Protodeacon and Empereor Peter I
(2018)Judging by the frequency with which Peter I used religious language in his numerous letters, it could be argued that the tsar was a deeply religious man. However, his legislation points to the strength with which he tried ... -
Sof’ja Andreevna Tolstaja e la ‘verità’ di Moja žizn’
(2018)This paper focuses on the most relevant work by Sof’ya Andreevna Tolstaya (1844-1919), Moya žizn’, an extensive family chronicle, which was written between 1904 and 1916, and published only in 2011 in its first Russian ... -
Carrying the Red Man’s Burden: Pavel Luknitskii, or Kipling in the Soviet Pamir
(2018)Kipling’s work in the Soviet Union was heavily criticized as an expression of imperialism; yet, it was widely read and translated – it was clearly more acceptable than that of Nikolai Gumilev, “the Kipling from Tsarskoe ... -
La psicoanalisi russa fra marginalità e assimilazione (1904-1930)
(2018)The present research is an attempt to write the initial pages of a study on the social and cultural history of psychoanalysis in Russia. While the swift spread in Russia of Freudian thought and methods is well known, ... -
Angelo Maria Ripellino e il ‘suo’ Lènin di Majakovskij
(2018)The article analyses the way Angelo Maria Ripellino translated in 1967 – fifty years after the October Revolution! – Vladimir Mayakovsky’s long poem Lenin for the Turin publishing house Giulio Einaudi. Judging by the ...