While Vladimir Putin’s Russia readily refers to its thousand-year history and presents the tsars as national heroes, memories of 1917 in their Soviet glorifying and Manichaean version seem increasingly difficult to assume.

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.

In everyday usage, there is no need to specify whether a given “deliberation” is individual or collective. It may be surmised from the context whether it is a matter of an individual reflecting on what to do, or else a debate or collective reflection by members of a group with a decision to be made.

Los debates y controversias sobre la situación política en Cataluña movilizan intensamente a los historiadores y dan lugar a múltiples usos del pasado, a diversas lecturas de la historia.