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.

The article suggests that Gandhi’s integrated thought and practice is of great significance today. It focuses on three arguments that Gandhi put together and tested in practice, and presents them in the way that R. B. Gregg explicated them.