The article examines American attitudes towards communism and Putin’s Russia as reflected through Donald Trump’s creation of the “National Day for the Victims of Communism”.

October Revolution, commemorative culture, foreign delegations, political marketing, trip to the USSR, cultural diplomacy, Willi Münzenberg, 1927.

The worldwide centenary of the 1917 revolution provided the occasion to revisit the question of its place in twentieth-century history, at a time when the country that had long borne aloft the “myth of October”, after much hesitation, and in clear indication of its discomfort.

Lisa Ginzburg parla con Davide Orecchio del suo ultimo libro, Mio padre la rivoluzione (2017), del suo rapporto con il tempo e la storia.